The Challenges of Publishing / Heroines at the Zenith

The fourth day of the ‘Heroines at the Zenith’ festival will be held at the Zenit Books bookstore, on 12 June, within the Heroines programme arch.

In order to become a heroine, you have to overcome injustice, without fear and anxiety. Then you can beat anyone who deserves to be defeated. Let the words be your weapon, your sword. Six editors and owners of publishing houses are debating the challenges of women’s contemporary creativity, with a special emphasis on translated literature and editorial awareness. The debate is of great help to young (but not only young) authors who want to know how they can publish their manuscripts.

The four-day festival ‘Heroines at the Zenith’ opens a space for presentation, getting acquainted with and opening dialogue with important female prose writers, poets, literary critics, and editors in publishing houses with an unequivocally thoughtful and enlightened feminist view of the world.

Literature created by women has not been synonymous with the margin for a long time: precisely, it puts local literary production in the European and international context by re-examining the dominant ideological canon and implicit male-centric policies of exclusivity and violence.

Some of the contemporary literary criticism heroines, who we will meet on the fourth day of the festival are Aleksandra Rašić, Ljubica Pupezin, Bora Babić, Bojana Denić, Silvija Dražić, and Vesna Kapuran.
Moderator: Tamara Krstić

Erste Bank is the partner of the Heroines programme arch.

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