RICK & CLAIRE FARIN
Actual Objects
17:00
Thursday, 3. 10. 2024
11:00
11:00
KRISTIAN NOVAK & ALJOŠA PUŽAR
Breakfast With the Author
On 3rd October, the Breakfast will travel from its original stage, Cafe Mozart in Pula, to another site of Austro-Hungarian heritage, Cukrarna Gallery where Aljoša Pužar will talk with Kristian Novak, the star of contemporary Croatian literature.
Breakfast With the Author is a traditional program of the Book Fair(y) in Istria that has gained a legendary reputation among the audience, authors, and guests of the Fair since the very beginning. Some of the guests of this program were Orhan Pamuk, Umberto Eco, Péter Esterházy, Adonis, Peter Sloterdijk, Wole Soyinka, Philippe Claudel, Claudio Magris, Jiří Menzel, Dušan Karpatský, Irvine Welsh, Erica Fischer, Dacia Maraini, Kenneth White, Alberto Manguel…
As the famed host of Breakfast With the Author, culturologist Aljoša Pužar has intrigued both authors and audience with his theoretically grounded, yet witty style for over ten years.
Kristian Novak is one of the most renowned Croatian writers, a linguist, and a professor at the University of Rijeka. His second novel, Black Mother Earth (2013), has been received with great enthusiasm by readers throughout the Southern European region. This was followed by his novel Gypsy, But the Prettiest (2016), which, like its predecessor, won the most prestigious Croatian literary awards. With these works, Kristian Novak has firmly established himself in the canon of contemporary Croatian literature.
Aljoša Pužar is a culturologist, writer, and professor of cultural studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. He has also lectured at the universities of Trieste, Berlin, and Rijeka. From 2006 to 2016, he taught cultural studies, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, women’s studies, and other subjects at various South Korean universities, including YONSEI and HUFS. His published works include books on literary history, border studies, and Korean culture, as well as literary essays, translations, short stories, and poetry.
In collaboration with Book Fair(y) in Istria.
