Krokodil Literary Festival

Krokodil Festival (Knjzevno Regionalno Okupljanje Koje Otklanja Dosadu I Letargiju) is a literary festival, with the main event held annually in Belgrade, Serbia. The festival mostly presents authors from the region of former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro and Serbia) with few exceptions like authors from Germany or Denmark. The main festival event is the Belgrade Summer Krokodil, a three-day festival held in June.^[1]

Overview

The festival was founded in 2009. Since then there were three main festival events held in Belgrade and several one-day festivals in Pula (Croatia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Leipzig (Germany) and Inđija (Serbia) – as part of the "Krokodil – On the Road" programme.

Festival events have been held in the locality of the Museum of Yugoslav History.

The festival is directed by Vladimir Arsenijević, Lidija Kusovac, and Ana Pejović.

Visiting authors

The following authors have visited the festival:

2009

• Lamija Begagić

2010

• Bekim Sejranović
• Bora Ćosić
• Petar Luković
• Slobodan Tišma

2011

• Clemens Meyer
• Goran_Vojnović
• Ivana Sajko
• Mirko Kovac (writer)
• Predrag Lucić
• Saša Ilić

References

External links

• Krokodil Literary Festival Belgrade official website