Dream Publisher
Dream Publisher (original name – Založba Sanje) is a distinguished Slovenian publisher, publishing quality fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children.
History
The very first publishing project of Sanje in 1997 was a book of poems by then forgotten, but now highly acclaimed Slovene artist Frane Milčinski-Ježek. Ever since then, high quality literature and music are main objective of its production. In the ten years of its existence, Dream Publisher has successfully accomplished many projects.
Major recent achievements
- national award for the best designed book three years running;
- national award for the best debut of the year 2006;
- 7th edition of FESTIVAL SANJE (a one-month open-air nonprofit festival of non-mainstream music and literature, presenting the best of innovative and creative projects)
- very successful national and international promotion of highly acclaimed Slovene writer Vladimir Bartol (now bestselling Slovene writer)
- first translation of a novel directly from Japanese language to Slovene (Norwegian Wood by acclaimed author Haruki Murakami)
- translations of Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle (2005), Snow (2006) and Istanbul, Memories of a City (2007)
- translation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, first ever translation of a literary workdirectly from Japanese to Slovenian (2005);
- one of its finest productions is undoubtedly an international collection of audio book by greatest master of Slovene poetry, France Prešeren (with world famous performers, such as Vanessa Redgrave, Katrin Cartlidge, Marjana Lipovšek, Simon Callow, Blixa Bargeld etc.…)
- the first complete translation of J.W. Goethe's FAUST by one of the finest Slovenian translators;
- "African novels" series, unique in Slovenia; initiated in 2004, it covers a range of classical and contemporary African authors.
- Sanje publishers is also very active internationally, representing many finest Slovene writers in Europe and other countries (Vladimir Bartol, Desa Muck, Breda Smolnikar and many others) – www.sanjepublishing.com
Imprints / editions
- Roman SANJE (Sanje novels)
- Dokumenta (Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, jr., Ernesto Che Guevara, Sven Lindqvist, Carla del Ponte, ...)
- TIGR (radical, socially oriented thinkers: Noam Chomsky,Tiziano Terzani,...)
- KONTINENTI (Continents)
- Sanjska knjigica (children’s books)
- Glasbena zbirka SANJE (music label)
- Zbirka zvočnih knjig SANJE (audiobooks)
Sanje festival (Dream Festival)
Sanje festival is organized by the Association for the promotion of culture and organization of cultural events, SANJE FESTIVAL (short: SANJE FESTIVAL Association) in cooperation with Sanje Publishers, the programme staff and local cooperators – VsemuKos association from Novo mesto (Dream World in Svet Teahouse, Novo mesto), KŠK and Igrišče Association (Sanje Festival below Krvavec).
The festival is intended to enhance summer activity with quality programme comprising all fields of culture and science. It particularly focuses on authorial music, quality literature and entertaining-educative programmes for children, at the same time seeking to present superior artists, performers and projects from home and aborad to a wide audience.
The main venue of Sanje Festival remains the Zvezda Park in the centre of the capital where the festival has been set from its very beginning.In last three years a section of the festival is set below the spreading trees in Dvorje at Cerklje na Gorenjskem.