The Most Prominent Local and Worldwide Authors
The Book Fair includes all major authors from Serbia and many respected regional writers. The event is traditionally opened by renowned local authors. In the first decade of the 20th century, the Fair was festively opened by Svetlana Velmar Janković, Vida Ognjenović, David Albahari, Milovan Danojlić, Ljubomir Simović, Goran Petrović, Dušan Kovačević, Dragoslav Mihailović, Dragan Velikić and László Végel.
The Fair is annually visited by at least one contemporary worldwide known writer. Among others, the Fair was visited by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Erica Jong, Natsuki Ikezawa, Claudio Magris, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Charles Simic, Elizabeth Abbott, Tony Parsons, Peter Handke, Patrick Besson, Ǻsa Lind, Thanassis Valtinos, Flaire Yegy, Gish Jen, Naim Kattan, Geir Pollen...
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Famous quotes containing the words the most, prominent, local and/or authors:
“... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—For the State of Montana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
metaphor.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)