Participation in the Forum of Slavic Cultures – ‘100 Slavic novels’ project

The FSC is an international institution established with the aim of safeguarding and development of cultural values and tradition of Slavic countries. The purpose of the Forum is to promote cooperation between Slavic countries, to strengthen cultural exchange, to promote cultural diversity, and to develop joint projects. The member countries of the Forum are: Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Serbia. One of the first and the most important projects implemented by the FSC is the publishing project entitled ‘A hundred Slavic novels’. It is the biggest international literary and cultural project of Slavic literature. The main objective of the project ‘A hundred Slavic novels’ is mutual introduction to the literature and culture of the Slavic world, encouraging mutual translation of Slavic literary and cultural works, as well as devised and representative presentation of the best examples of the contemporary Slavic novel in the big world languages. In order to achieve this goal, it was necessary to form the anthology of novels written and published in Slavic languages after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Such an anthology, which is extremely rare in the overall European publishing, was obtained in the representative edition ‘A hundred Slavic novels’. With support of professional and partner institutions, each member country within the project selected ten novels published after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The only criterion for the selection was the artistic quality of the selected novels.