Dream Publisher
Encyclopedia
Dream Publisher is a distinguished Slovenia
n publisher, publishing quality fiction
and nonfiction for both adults and children.
Frane Milčinski-Ježek. Ever since then, high quality literature
and music
are main objective of its production. In the ten years of its existence, Dream Publisher has successfully accomplished many projects.
and organization of cultural events, SANJE FESTIVAL (short: SANJE FESTIVAL Association) in cooperation with Sanje Publishers, the programme staff and local cooperators - VsemuKos association from Novo mesto (Dream World in Svet Teahouse, Novo mesto), KŠK and Igrišče Association (Sanje Festival below Krvavec).
The festival
is intended to enhance summer activity with quality programme comprising all fields of culture and science. It particularly focuses on authorial music, quality literature and entertaining-educative programmes for children, at the same time seeking to present superior artists, performers and projects from home and aborad to a wide audience.
The main venue of Sanje Festival remains the Zvezda Park in the centre of the capital where the festival has been set from its very beginning.In last three years a section of the festival is set below the spreading trees in Dvorje at Cerklje na Gorenjskem.
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n publisher, publishing quality fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
and nonfiction for both adults and children.
History
The very first publishing project of Sanje in 1997 was a book of poems by then forgotten, but now highly acclaimed Slovene artistArtist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
Frane Milčinski-Ježek. Ever since then, high quality literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
and music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
are main objective of its production. In the ten years of its existence, Dream Publisher has successfully accomplished many projects.
Major recent achievements
- national award for the best designed book three years running;
- national award for the best debut of the year 2006;
- 7th edition of FESTIVAL SANJE (a one-month open-air nonprofit festival of non-mainstream music and literature, presenting the best of innovative and creative projects)
- very successful national and international promotion of highly acclaimed Slovene writerWriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
Vladimir Bartol (now bestselling Slovene writer) - first translation of a novel directly from Japanese language to Slovene (Norwegian Wood by acclaimed author Haruki MurakamiHaruki Murakamiis a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize among others.He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature...
) - translations of Nobel prizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner Orhan PamukOrhan PamukFerit Orhan Pamuk , generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing....
's The White Castle (2005), Snow (2006) and Istanbul, Memories of a City (2007) - translation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, first ever translation of a literary workdirectly from Japanese to Slovenian (2005);
- one of its finest productions is undoubtedly an international collection of audio book by greatest master of Slovene poetry, France Prešeren (with world famous performers, such as Vanessa RedgraveVanessa RedgraveVanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning...
, Katrin CartlidgeKatrin CartlidgeKatrin Cartlidge was an English actress. She first appeared on screen as Lucy Collins in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside from 1982 to 1988 and later became well known for her film work with directors such as Mike Leigh and Lars von Trier.- Biography :Cartlidge was born in London to an English...
, Marjana Lipovšek, Simon Callow, Blixa Bargeld etc…) - the first complete translation of J.W. Goethe's FAUST by one of the finest Slovenian translators;
- »African novels« series, unique in Slovenia; initiated in 2004, it covers a range of classical and contemporary African authors.
- Sanje publishers is also very active internationally, representing many finest Slovene writers in Europe and other countries (Vladimir Bartol, Desa Muck, Breda Smolnikar and many others) – www.sanjepublishing.com
Imprints / Editions
- Roman SANJE (Sanje novels)
- Dokumenta (Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, jr., Ernesto Che Guevara, Sven Lindqvist, Carla del Ponte, ...)
- TIGR (radical, socially oriented thinkers: Noam Chomsky,Tiziano Terzani,...)
- KONTINENTI (Continents)
- Sanjska knjigica (children’s books)
- Glasbena zbirka SANJE (music label)
- Zbirka zvočnih knjig SANJE (audiobooks)
Sanje festival (Dream Festival)
Sanje festival is organized by the Association for the promotion of cultureCulture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
and organization of cultural events, SANJE FESTIVAL (short: SANJE FESTIVAL Association) in cooperation with Sanje Publishers, the programme staff and local cooperators - VsemuKos association from Novo mesto (Dream World in Svet Teahouse, Novo mesto), KŠK and Igrišče Association (Sanje Festival below Krvavec).
The festival
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
is intended to enhance summer activity with quality programme comprising all fields of culture and science. It particularly focuses on authorial music, quality literature and entertaining-educative programmes for children, at the same time seeking to present superior artists, performers and projects from home and aborad to a wide audience.
The main venue of Sanje Festival remains the Zvezda Park in the centre of the capital where the festival has been set from its very beginning.In last three years a section of the festival is set below the spreading trees in Dvorje at Cerklje na Gorenjskem.