XXX Antun Šoljan Days
April 24, Friday
11:00 – City Library “Matija Vlačić Ilirik”
Play and workshop for primary school children based on Antun Šoljan’s story Papuančeve papuče from the book Ovo i druga mora (This and Other Seas)
12:00 – Zvane Črnje Secondary School Library
Presentation of the final project of the Rovinj high school film workshop on the theme The End of Literature
Workshop leaders: Eric Ušić, Michele Bulešić, Marino and Teo Morosin
19:00 – MMC
Theatre BORIS SENKER
Boris Senker in conversation with Tomislav Brlek, Lada Čale Feldman, and Ivica Matičević, with songs performed by Petra Blašković
April 25, Saturday
9:30 – Laying of a wreath at Antun Šoljan’s house
10:00 – MMC
Literary-scientific colloquium: THE END OF LITERATURE – ASPECTS OF CHANGE
Ivica Matičević: Opening remarks
Antun Pavešković: What is literature for?
Tomislav Brlek: Does literature have a purpose?
Jasmina Vojvodić: The end of literature within literature itself
Tvrtko Vuković: The specter of the philological task: beyond the return to philology
Tea Rogić Musa: Historical writing about literature: testimony of a quiet dying
Dubravka Crnojević Carić: How does literature live on social networks (Facebook)?
Lada Žigo Španić: The democratization of taste is bad taste
Slaven Jurić: Ujević’s Twilight of Poetry as Literaturdämmerung?
Sven Kezele: Josip Sever: At the end of modernism?
Jakob Filić: Problems of production and consumption: poetry between social networks and artificial intelligence
Pavle Bonča: Epulon’s sunset: Istrian anabases and anabioses
Tihomir Glowatzky: The condemned live longer! / The dead live longer
Magdalena Dyras: Overview of the state of Polish literature today (writers, literary awards, readers)
Moderator: Ivica Matičević
Book presentations (Croatian Writers’ Association Small Library edition)
Boris Senker: Writers and Theatre People, essay collection, 2025
S. S. Kranjčević: Manuscript of the World. Selected Poems, ed. T. Brlek, 2025
About the books will speak: Boris Senker, Tomislav Brlek, Antun Pavešković, Ivica Matičević
20:00 – Antonio Gandusio Theatre
Concert: ERNST REIJSEGER & MARIO FORTE
Ernst Reijseger – cello, Mario Forte – violin
Sponsors: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Istria County, City of Rovinj-Rovigno, Croatian Writers’ Association
