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45th International Writers' Meeting

Bled, 8th to 12th of May 2013




44th International Writers' Meeting - Bled 2012

This year's 44th International "Bled Meeting" will be held in Bled, Slovenia from 16th to 20th May 2012.

The Slovene PEN centre and the Writers for Peace Commitee of International PEN propose to discuss the following themes:

1. Transformation – new paths or the decline of Western rational civilization
2. Perennial modernity
3. Sharing with others, a path to peace


The general idea and directions for the round tables can be found here: 1st round table 2nd rt2nd round table 3rd rt3rd round table

 

Members of PEN Centres who would like to participate at the conference, are requested to fill in the registration form and send it to before April the 15th 2012 to: slopen@guest.arnes.si

 

Participants are invited to read at literary evenings organized in ten different Slovene towns!

Provisional programme:pg



Bled meetings

Bled Meetings are international meetings of writers organized by the Slovene PEN and the WfCP. They began in 1968 in Piran and since 1977 they are held in Bled. In more than 40 years of their existence the Bled Meetings have become a major PEN literary event.

Every year three round tables are organized, one of them by the Writers for Peace Committee which also holds one of its annual meetings.
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