Slovenia
Guest of the book fair Svět knihy Praha 2024
Miha Kovač is Professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the University of Ljubljana. In his publishing career, he worked as editorial director in the two largest Slovene publishing houses and as an editorial director of Slovene edition of National Geographic Magazine. In 1999, he started to lecture at the University of Ljubljana. He is the author of more than fifty articles and four books on book history, reading and book publishing. His mass market book Read to Breathe was translated to seven languages. His last book Is this a Book?, co-authored with Angus Phillips, was published in Elements series by Cambridge University Press in 2023. He co-authored the Ljubljana Reading Manifesto, which was one of the pillars of the Slovenian program in Frankfurt.
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Book World Prague 2024
15:00 - 15:50
Svět knihy, Moravská zemská knihovna
Czech, English
In the context of Slovenia, the guest of honour in Frankfurt 2023, the "Ljubljana Manifesto" was released to promote reading. Mihael Kovač (the spiritual author...
Thursday, 23. 5. 2024
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