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Bled meetings

Bled Meetings are international meetings of writers held in the town of Bled, Slovenia since 1977. They orignally begun in 1968 in Piran.

The traditional Bled Meetings became – in more than fourty years of existence – one of the most prominent literary gatherings in the world. Since its foundation the Slovene PEN has stood in defence of those whose freedom of expression was violated, supported the persecuted authors in former Yugoslavia, and paid special attention to Slovenian minorities in the neighbouring countries. In the period when Slovenia was gaining independence Slovenian PEN was keeping the world informed via the network of International PEN, and during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina it was gathering and forwarding international aid for writers in that region.

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