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."
Photographs from the 2014 edition of Vilenica International Literary Festival
The Crystal Vilenica award ceremony takes place in Štanjel Castle
Image: Fulvio Tomizza
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Dževad Karahasan
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Dževad Karahasan was a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded the Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.
