The bilingual programme of Lit link festival consists of 10-minute readings of prose fragments, after short q & a's with the authors. Writers read in their original languages while a translation into Spanish, i.e. Croatian is projected onto a screen in the background.

Zagreb, Wednesday 2.10., 19:00 // Pri Nami, Stube Ivana Zakmardija 4
Festival opening & book launch of „Perfect Days“ by Jacobo Bergareche, translated into Croatian by Željka Somun (Hena Com, 2024)

Labin, Friday 4. 10., 18: 00 // City Hall, Titov trg 11
Featuring: Jacobo Bergareche, Igor Beleš, Natalija Grgorinić & Ognjen Rađen, Silvia Hidalgo, Željka Horvat Čeč, Mariana Sández, Olja Savičević Ivančević; Emiliano Becerril Silva, Vito D'Onghia, José Hamad, Lidia Rey, Alfonso Zuriaga

Rijeka, Saturday 5. 10., 18:00 // Ex libris, Ul. Riva Boduli 3
Featuring: Jacobo Bergareche, Silvia Hidalgo, Dunja Matić, Mariana Sández, Eva Simčić, Tea Tulić, Zoran Žmirić; Emiliano Becerril Silva, Vito D'Onghia, José Hamad, Lidia Rey, Alfonso Zuriaga

Zagreb, Sunday 6. 10. 18:00 // Močvara, Trnjanska struga 34
Featuring: Asja Bakić, Jacobo Bergareche, Silvia Hidalgo, Nebojša Lujanović, Kristian Novak, Mariana Sández, Dora Šustić; Emiliano Becerril Silva, Vito D'Onghia, José Hamad, Lidia Rey, Alfonso Zuriaga

Lit link's 2024 guests are editors and publishers: Emiliano Becerril Silva (Elefanta Publishers), Vito D'Onghia (Ampi Margini), José Hamad (Sexto Piso), Lidia Rey (Galaxia Gutenberg), Alfonso Zuriaga (Altamarea)

Spanish prose translated into Croatian by: Željka Somun
Croatian authors translated into Spanish by: Miguel Roán
Event moderators: Vedrana Lovrinović, Robert Perišić & Ana Fazekaš

ZAGREB
5 Oct 2023 (Thursday)
17h
Booksa, Martićeva ulica 14d
Introductory event and short Q&A w/ foreign writers: Jessi Jezewska Stevens, David Szalay, Nell Zink.

RIJEKA
6 Oct 2023 (Friday)
18h
Ex libris, Ul. Riva Boduli 3
Readings by:
Nell Zink, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Dora Šustić, Tea Tulić, David Szalay, Jurica Pavičić, Želimir Periš, Maja Ručević

LABIN
7 Oct 2023 (Saturday)
19h
Teatrino, Stari trg 1
Readings by:
Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Nell Zink, Nora Verde, Marija Andrijašević, Željka Horvat Čeč, Toni Juričić, David Szalay

ZAGREB
8 Oct 2023 (Sunday)
18.30h
Močvara, Trnjanska struga 34
Readings by:
Nell Zink, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, David Szalay, Magdalena Blažević, Olja Savičević Ivančević, Eva Simčić, Zoran Ferić, Sven Popović Anglophone editors, publishers and literary agents also participating in the program: Denise Rose Hansen (Lolli Editions, London), Laurence Colchester (Bitter Lemon Press, London), Ellah Wakatama (Canongate Books, London/Manchester), Buzz Poole (Sandorf Passage, Portland, Maine), James Tookey (Peirene Press, London), Dredheza Maloku (Daunt Books, London)

The program are moderated by Chloé Billon, Julien Delorme, and Robert Perišić

ZAGREB
July 7th, Thursday
18:00 book club Booksa; Martićeva 14d
-gathering of publishers and editors – introductory meeting with the interested stakeholders from the literary field (internal event)
19:00 meeting with the media

LABIN
July 8th, Friday
19– 21:30 Teatrino
Reading: Lucie Rico, Philippe Marczewski, Tatjana Gromača, Želimir Periš, Zoran Ferić, Bojan Žižović, Emilienne Malfatto

RIJEKA
July 9th, Saturday
19:30 – 21:30 Slovenski dom Bazovica
Reading: Lucie Rico, Emilienne Malfatto, Marko Pogačar, Srećko Horvat, Zoran Žmirić, Vlado Kreslin, Nora Verde, Philippe Marczewski

ZAGREB
July 10th, Sunday
19:00 – 21.30, Močvara club, Trnjanski nasip bb., Zagreb
Reading: Marija Andrijašević, Lucie Rico, Ivana Bodrožić, Željka Horvat Čeč, Emilienne Malfatto, Marinko Koščec, Sandra Antolić, Robert Prosser, Philippe Marczewski

October 6th, Wednesday
16:00 book club Booksa; Zagreb, Martićeva 14d
- gathering of publishers and editors – introductory meeting with interested stakeholders from the literary field (closed event without an audience)

17:00 – 17:45 h, book club Booksa; Martićeva ulica 14d
-authors, publishers and editors, participants in the festival – meeting with the media (participants are not obliged to give statements for the media)

18:00, bar Kariola, Vlaška 63
- reading: Robert Prosser

October 7th, Thursday
19:00 – 22:30 – reading in the city library in Labin: Jana Volkmann, Jasen Boko, Tatajana Gromača, Sinan Gudžević, Uwe von Seltmann

October 8th, Friday
18:00 – 21:30 book café Dnevni boravak, Ciottina ulica 12a, Rijeka
reading: Lena Müller, Korana Serdarević, Martin Peichl, Jan Peter Bremer, Marko Tomaš, Jurica Gašpar

October 9th, Saturday
18:00 – 22.00, Močvara club, Trnjanski nasip bb., Zagreb
reading: Nada Topić, Lena Müller, Lora Tomaš, Jana Volkmann, Damir Karakaš, Martin Peichl, Ante Zlatko Stolica, Jan Peter Bremer, Želimir Periš

German editors, publishers and literary agents participating in the program: Sebastian Guggolz (Guggolz Verlag), Janika Rütter (Suhrkamp), Laura Siegismund (Merlin Verlag), Sophia Hungerhoff (Mare Verlag), Janek Domonell (literary agent), Chloé Billon (literary translator).