“SKOPJE FELLOWSHIP" PROGRAM

Foreing publishers, festival directors and programme managers, literary agents and scouts – visiting PRO-ZA Balkan

“Skopje Fellowship” programme is dedicated to foreign pub¬lishers, festival directors and programme managers, literary agents and scouts. The Festival is among the first in the region to establish a programme dedicated to such a profile of guests, and continues with the same intensity.

The objective of the Fellowship Programme is to familiarize the stakeholders of the prominent festivals and the world of pub¬lishers with our literary scene, which, we hope, would result in new translations, visits of writers abroad, promotion of the literature, networking of writers and cultural workers in the area of publishing and literature with their European and worldwide colleagues...

PARTICIPANTS

PIERRE ASTIER, LITERARY
AGENCY ASTIER-PÉCHER, FRANCE

Winner of the LBF Excellence Award 2019/International Agent Founder in 2006 with Laure Pécher of the international agency Agence lit¬téraire Astier-Pecher. Representing a diverse range of French and Non- French authors (Fiction/Non Fiction), as well as small press, discovering new talents, editing, selling publishing rights world wide and film rights. In 2015 the agency appointed Jérôme Bouchaud for all Asian territories and in 2017 Nataly Villena for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking territo¬ries.
A person will soon be in charge of Africa and another one in charge of Central & Eastern Europe.

BETTINA WÖRGÖTTER, PAUL ZSOLNAY & DEUTICKE, AUSTRIA

Bettina Wörgötter, born 1974 in Kufstein (Austria), studied Comparative Literature and Germanic and Romanic Studies in Vienna, Paris and Ma-drid, she worked at the University of Budapest and is working as a visiting lecturer at the University of Munich. For Paul Zsolnay & Deuticke Publish¬ing
House in Vienna she is working as an Editor since 1999.

KATJA URBANIJA, GOGA, SLOVENIA

Katja Urbanija obtained her Master’s degree in publishing from the Faculty of Arts at University in Ljubljana, with her thesis on selling translation rights of Slovenian authors. She works for Goga Publishing House in the Rights department and represents several award-winning and bestselling authors from Slovenia (Miha Mazzini, Sebastijan Pregelj, …) and Serbia (Dragan Velikić) as a literary agent. She was selected to be the literary agent for the first edition of Reading Balkans by the Project board.

REXHEP HIDA, FAN NOLI, ALBANIA

Rexhep has worked as Translator, Editor, Professor. He was Chief of the Political department by the State Political Publishing House from September 1975 – May 1991.
Director of the Publishing House Fan Noli from May 1991
to present. Director of World Bank for Albania from
July 1995-June 2007. Publishing house “Fan Noli” is the first private publishing house in Albania, created in May 1991.
It is one of the largest publishers in Albania, with the leading position on the Albanian book market. Until this moment they have published more than 2000 titles.