Beletrina Academic Press

Beletrina Academic Press is a Slovenian publishing house, originally founded in 1996 by students of the University of Ljubljana as the Študentska Založba (Student Publishing House). Co-founders include notable Slovene authors such as Aleš Šteger and Mitja Cander. It has operated the Beletrina Bookshop, which opened in Ljubljana in 2010, since 2014. In addition to physical books, it also publishes the online magazines AirBeletrina and Versopolis, and hosts two literary festivals, Days of Poetry and Wine Festival and Fabula Festival, since 2004. Through the AirBeletrina literary journal, it hosts a short-story contest; the publishing house also organizes creative writing courses. In 2013, Beletrina launched Biblos.si, the first Slovene eLibrary and eBookshop. Beletrina also issues recordings of authors reading from their own work.

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