David Albahari was a Serbian writer. Albahari wrote mainly novels and short stories in the Serbian language. He was also an established translator from English into Serbian. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a University of Belgrade graduate. Albahari was awarded the prestigious NIN Award for the best novel of 1996 for Mamac (Bait). He was among the award's finalists on seven other occasions.

Vilenica International Literary Festival is a festival dedicated to literature that was founded in 1986 in Slovenia. It takes place annually in several locations on the Karst Plateau in the Slovene Littoral, including inside Vilenica Cave. It is arranged by the Slovene Writers' Association together with the Cultural Centre Vilenica from Sežana. The highlight of the festival is the awarding of the Vilenica International Literary Prize to a Central European author for "outstanding achievements in the field of literature and essay writing."