European Facebook poetry festival to begin on Saturday

BELGRADE - The European Facebook Poetry Festival will begin at the Novi Sad Fair within the 21st International Book Fair and it gathers over 500 poets from Serbia and abroad.

The sixth festival in a row will last two days and confirmation of attendance has arrived from poets from Germany, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, France, Denmark, Sweden, England, Japan, Australia, Greece, Bulgaria, Jordan, the Czech Republic, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro.

The first-instance jury, comprising winners of festivals held so far, adopted a decision on the selection of poems for the festival shortlist and the second-instance jury headed by Simon Grabovac will make the decision on the festival winner.

Books published by last year's festival winners Elena Askarova from Russia and Mensur Catic from BiH and the poems that made it to the shortlist will be presented within the festival programme.

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