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WHAT AWAITS US The great trefoil of literature: Keret, Grossman and Cercas at the World Literature Festival The eighth World Literature Festival is being held in pandemic conditions By: Karmela DevčićPosted: September 3, 2020 8:26 am Keret, Grossman and Cercas Keret, Grossman and Cercas Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail The eighth World Literature Festival is being held in pandemic conditions. The Fraktura publishing house, which organizes the Festival, says that at no time did they think of giving up, but to this day, and the Festival opens on Sunday, they have changed several options on how to hold it, how to gather guests and how, if at all possible , interact with the audience. “We had several program changes, depending on the situation. In the spring, during the quarantine period, we started thinking about organizing the Festival online, in June, when the situation calmed down, we hoped to organize it as in previous years, almost in the same way, and when Motovun and Pula were postponed, we made the decision to go with the online part, but looking for as many authors as possible to come to Zagreb, to be here live, with the audience ", says Fraktura's editor Seid Serdarević. Sixty authors Part of the Festival's program will be broadcast on Croatian television either live or for the first time. The second part of the program will be held, in compliance with all epidemiological measures, in the newly opened Bookstore Fraktura at Ulica kneza Mislava 17 in Zagreb and these programs will be broadcast live via its web platforms in cooperation with 24sata. One program will be held at the Croatian Music Institute, where the Festival took place last year. Exhibitions will be set in the Canvas Gallery and the Shira Gallery, and films based on literary works will also be broadcast on the Third Program. About sixty authors from twelve countries are participating in the Festival. Some will speak for the audience from their homes or TV studios, but many will perform live in front of the cameras, either from HRT studios or from Fraktura's bookstore. There will be an audience at each event, as far as the capacity of the space allows, while adhering to all epidemiological measures. Live broadcast In Fraktura, they say that this year's organization of the Festival is more demanding than any before because, among other things, they are also engaged in the business of television production. The opening of the Festival, on Sunday, September 6, will be broadcast live from the Sunny side of Prisavlje. The show will feature Israeli author Etgar Keret, three program directors of Croatian literary festivals Magdalena Vodopija, Roman Simić and Seid Serdarević, and Đurđica Čilić and Semezdin Mehmedinović. A film based on a story published by Etgar Keret in the New York Times at the time of the pandemic will also be screened. The interview with David Grossman will also be conducted through HRT studios and studies in Israel. Perhaps the most interesting guest of the festival will talk about his recently translated novel "When Nina Knew", in which the famous Israeli writer builds a fictional story based in large part on the life of Eva Panic, a Jew from Cakovec who, after surviving World War II war, and then imprisonment on Goli Otok, emigrated to Israel. In the same way, an interview will be held with the Italian author Francesco Melandri about her novel "Blue Blood", in which she talks about African emigrants in Italy, about the colonial past of her country and about the war in Ethiopia. RELATED NEWS Julijana Matanović GLOBUS INTERVIEW 'Ever since I wrote my first text, I've been acting as a lawyer for our literature, not giving in to it' EXCLUSIVE We publish an excerpt from the most anticipated book of the year - 'The Lying Life of Adults' by Elena Ferrante The conversation with Grossman will be led by Seid Serdarević, the translator Ana Badurina will talk to Francesco Melandri, and Tomislav Brlek will talk to Croatian readers by the well-known Spanish writer Javier Cercas. This time Cercas tells the story of the recently published novel "The Ruler of the Shadows", in which he deals with the fascist past of his family, talks about the decades that took him the courage to scratch into it, to face the story of his uncle and grandfathers who found themselves on the wrong side. On Saturday, September 5, in the announcement show of the Festival on HRT, Ivana Rogar and Ludwig Bauer will speak about the themes of dystopia and apocalypse in literature, Vid Barić about the contemporary lie… Dorthe Nors, a Danish writer, winner of a number of awards and a finalist for the Man Booker International Award, and an essayist, will talk in one of the "Double Portraits" in one of the "Double Portraits". , prose writer and feminist Asja Bakić. There are a lot of authors from transition countries who focus on growing up in the transition period, each with their own slightly different experience. Korana Serdarević will talk about this topic with Romanian writer Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu and Croatian author Andrija Škar. The topic of violence against women Morana Zibar will talk about Ole Thorstensen, a Norwegian carpenter who has become a world literary sensation, and Milan Majerović Stilinović, who wrote a book in which he fulfills man, for what fulfills and gives him balance and support in the modern world of cacophonous speed. narrates what he learned from the mountains and in the mountains. Antonela Marušić will discuss violence against women, pedophilia, social injustice and social pathology with the winner of the European Prize for Literature, Dutch writer Jamal Ouariachi, and Magdalena Blažević. In the program "The Writer and His Reader" Kruno Lokotar will lead a dialogue with Marko Tomaš and Marko Gregur about their new novels, and Semezdin Mehmedinović and Đurđica Čilić will talk about memories, how to capture the past, whether memories can be trusted… This year's "Literary Matinees", which are very popular among young people, have almost been turned into picnics where literature is told, and they will be held on the meadow of the Croatian Radio and Television. Students of Zagreb's 5th grammar school will talk to Mihaela Gašpar about her novels and the themes that are repeated in them, almost to haunt the author. High school students from the 10th gymnasium "Ivan Supek" will meet Ivica Prtenjača at a picnic, hear how he creates, and students from VII. high school with Ante Zlatko Stolica will talk about flash stories and details that he hunts with a mobile phone. Monika Herceg, in the role of moderator, will talk about poetry with her peers Sünje Lewejohann, Lara Mitraković and Olja Savičević Ivančević. About uncertainty and crisis At a time when few things are completely certain, and we know the least about what the future will be, several round tables at the Festival deal with the topic of uncertainty. Igor Štiks will talk about the crisis and the strength of the European Union with Ivan Sajko, Boris Buden and Vladimir Arsenijević, Dejan Jović, Semezdin Mehmedinović and Renata Salecl will talk about the world after the pandemic, and Bruno Kragić will discuss with Marija how important literature is in such a world. Ott Franolić, Maša Grdešić, Damir Radić and Aleš Šteger