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Since 2008, the Centre for Slovenian Literature has offered a residency and a grant for international writers and translators with an interest in Slovenian literature and culture to stay in Kočevje, Slovenia, developing their projects and meeting with Slovene writers and/or translators.
The centre offers a 3-week residency for international writers, poets or dramatists. In 2010, András Gerevich (1976 Budapest), a poet, screenwriter and literary translator, was selected. In 2012, the resident was Alicia Garcia Nunez, a Spanish poet and performer.
Background
The Centre for Slovenian Literature, Ljubljana, and KUD Jazbec and partners, Kočevje, ran an international literary residency in Kočevje, the first one in Slovenia. They selected the guests via an international tender.
In 2003, it was established as a room in the Valentin Hotel specially adapted for writing, and the American writer Robert Murray Davis stayed there for three weeks in April. Since 2008, the Veronika Guesthouse offered space for the Writers' Room, and Malika Booker, a poet from Great Britain, came to work there. The following year, a playwright Jelena Popadić from Serbia took part in Kočevje residency.