BLED 2020
PROGRAMME
TUESDAY, 22st of September
Bled Hotel Park
11.00 - 18.00 Board meeting of PEN International Writers for peace Committee
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch
19.00 - 21.00 Diner
WEDNESDAY, 23nd of September
Bled Hotel Park
Arrival of participants
9.30 - 17.30 Meeting of the PEN International Writers for Peace Committee
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
15.00 - 17.30 Parallel regional meetings:
Women Writers Committee with guests
Mediterranean and Alps-Adria networks
18.00 - 19.30 Opening of the 52nd International Writers' Meeting
Words of welcome by the Mayor of Bled Mr. Janez Fajfar
Guest poets: Sameer Sayegh, Meta Kušar and Manca Košir
Presentation of the books:
Peter Townsend - Postman from Nagasaki;
Richard Berengarten - Lakeside
Boris Pasternak - Unusual days
Moderator Robert Simonišek
19.30 Dinner
THURSDAY, 24th of September
Bled Hotel Park
9.00 – 12.30 Round table of the Slovene PEN Centre:
Violence in Literature - metaphor or reality
Moderator Ifigenija Simonović
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.30 – 18.00 Round table of the Writers for Peace Committee, PEN International:
All of us are Migrants: Literature in Exile
Opening words Marko Rakovec, Head of the Human Rights Department
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Moderators Franc Mikša and Edvard Kovač
18.30 - 22.00 Literary festival 'Faces of Peace': Readings by participants
History Club, Bled
Moderators Srečo Vernig in Ifigenija Simonović
Dinner
FRIDAY, 25th of Septembre
Bled Hotel Park
9.00 - 12.30 Meeting of the Writers for peace Committee
Parallel: Round table on current subjects; resume of the 52nd Meeting,
plans for the future
Moderator Ifigenija Simonović
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 17.00 A walk around the lake
19.00 - 22.00 Diner
Opening words by Igancia Fridl Jarc, first secretary at the Ministry of culture
of the Republic of Slovenia
Readings by participants
Homage to Boris Pasternak and Albert Camus
Music: Manca and Benjamin Izmajlov
Moderator Marjan Strojan
SATURDAY, 26th of Septembre
Departure of participants
Offical languages: French, English, Slovene
52nd Writers’ Meeting at Bled is under the honorary patronage of His Excellency Mr Borut Pahor, President of the Republic of Slovenia
We shall comply with official directives regarding covid19
