Slovo úvodem - Ljudmila

klubu v Bledu, první PEN kongres konající se
ve východní Evropě od konce 2. světové války
a první, kterého se zúčastnili ruští spisovatelé,
kteří přijeli jako pozorovatelé. Po této
důležité události pokračoval Klub v pořádání
každoročních literárních konferencí v Bledu.
V roce 1984 byl pod záštitou Slovinského klubu
založen Mezinárodní výbor spisovatelů
pro mír. Během období studené války nabízela
konference v Bledu otevřenou diskusi pro
vedení demokratických dialogů mezi spisovateli
z východu a západu, pro které to byla
příležitost diskutovat o ožehavých otázkách
zaměstnávajících intelektuály z celého světa.
U příležitosti 40. výročí konference v Bledu
bude Slovinský PEN klub hostit 71. Mezinárodní
kongres. Obě akce proběhnou ve znamení
vstupu Slovinska do Evropské unie a
oslavy dlouhé historie svobody a otevřeného
dialogu mezi intelektuály. Kongres bude důležitou
záštitou pro mír, stabilitu a potvrzení
svobodné literatury, jazyka a kultury.
Slovenian P.E.N. Centre
Tomšičeva 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel & Fax: ++386 1 425 48 47
E-mail: slopen@guest.arnes.si
This year, the Slovenian PEN. is celebrating two anniversaries:
75 years of existence, and 35 years of one of its
most important activities – annual international meetings
organised by the Slovenian PEN., and since its establishment
also by the Writers’ for Peace Committee of International
PEN., whose seat is in the Slovenian PEN. It started
35 years ago in the picturesque coastal town of Piran on
the initiative of Ms Mira Mihelič, writer and translator, who
at the time chaired the Slovenian PEN. and was Vice-President
of the International PEN. A few years later the meeting
was moved to Bled.
In the three and a half decades of Bled meetings this
international writers’ event has developed into an important
meeting of citizens once divided by blocs, yet never
‘’divided’’ as writers. Mostly thanks to the direct – and in
certain more complex situations – kind, friendly and efficient
President Mira Mihelič, her successors Miloš Mikeln,
Drago Jančar, and after Slovenia gained independence
and still during the Balkan wars, when the Slovenian PEN.
and the International Writers’ for Peace Committee were
chaired by Boris A. Novak, the ‘’Bled PEN.’’ has turned into
one of the central events in the life of International PEN. as
well. Now the meeting prides itself on being the oldest annual
regional conference in the frame of our international
writers’ organisation.
The Bled international meetings, through careful observation
of global events in the spiritual, cultural and particularly
literary sphere, give rise to the topics for roundtable
discussions. In organising the event, the Slovenian
PEN. and the Peace Committee are more than happy to
welcome those literary guests who come from countries
still characterised by problems, oppression, limited freedom
and violence.
71 st World Congress of International Pen
Bled, Slovenia, 14th–21st June 2005
In 1965 the Slovenian PEN Centre organized the 33 rd
World Congress of International PEN at Bled, the first PEN
Congress to be held in Eastern Europe after the Second
World War, and the first to be attended by Russian writers,
who came as observers. The Centre followed this
landmark event with annual regional literary conferences
in Bled, at which International PEN Writers for Peace Committee,
founded in 1984 and hosted by the Slovenian Centre,
also meets. During the years of the Cold War, the Bled
Conferences provided the only substantial open forum for
democratic dialogue between writers from the East and
West, at which they could consider and discuss the burning
questions occupying the minds of intellectuals all over
the world. On the 40 th anniversary of the Bled Congress,
the Slovenian PEN Centre will host the 71 st International
Congress – both to mark Slovenia’s accession to the European
Union, and to celebrate this long history of free and
open dialogue among intellectuals. The Congress will be
an important factor for peace and stability and an affirmation
of literature, language and the culture of peace.
Slovinský svaz překladatelů
Tomšičeva 12, 1000 Lublaň, Slovinsko
www.dskp-drustvo.si
Slovinský svaz překladatelů byl založen
v roce 1953 pod názvem Svaz překladatelů
Slovinska. Tímto byl zrealizován původní záměr
jako paralela ke Svazu slovinských spiso-
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