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Eurozine is pleased to announce the participation of Sarajevo Notebook in the Eurozine network. Founded in 2002 on the initiative of a group of prominent intellectuals and public activists from throughout the former Yugoslavia, Sarajevo Notebook is an independent regional journal whose aim is to re-establish lines of communication between regional and ethnic communities in the Balkans, and hence to contribute to reconciliation in the region. In the current issue, Janez Potocnik, as from February 2010 European Commissioner for the Environment, writes:
This project not only plays an important part in strengthening regional cooperation, it reveals to the rest of Europe the high philosophical and literary standards coming from this – in many respects – stigmatized region. A region whose culture includes all the fundamental characteristics of the spiritual dimensions that are genuinely European. It reminds us that Europe is also in the Balkans, rich and diverse – something that is of course so easily understandable for all of us who used to live together in the former Yugoslavia.
Issues featured in the journal have so far included: women's writing; writers and nationalism; the responsibility of writers; non-European Europe; the national literary canon; nomadism; literature and language; and regional focuses on contemporary drama, the contemporary novel, contemporary poetry, contemporary criticism, and contemporary film. The English edition of Sarajevo Notebook, "Best of Sarajevo Notebooks", selects articles published in the journal up to 2007.Sarajevo Notebook is published biannually, with articles in all three BCS languages (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian); contributions originally in Macedonian, Slovenian and Albanian are translated into one of the above.
Read Janez Potocnik's article in full, as well as more about Sarajevo Notebook.
Published 2010-02-26
Original in English
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