{"id":21045,"date":"2026-03-17T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?p=21045"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:25:36","slug":"krokodil-in-umea-centers-of-periphery-2-0-littfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/2026\/03\/krokodil-in-umea-centers-of-periphery-2-0-littfest\/","title":{"rendered":"KROKODIL IN UME\u00c5 : CENTERS OF PERIPHERY 2.0 @ LITTFEST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By participating in Littfest in Ume\u00e5 this year, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Littfest\u2013KROKODIL collaboration entitled CENTERS OF PERIPHERY. A decade ago our festivals connected through a shared experience of geographical peripheries combined with a surprisingly rich literary production. Despite distance and difference, we discovered numerous similarities and affinities \u2014 and that makes this partnership so special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past decade Littfest has grown and developed, and our experience there this year \u2014 its 20th anniversary \u2014 was simply outstanding. The collaboration has become more than an exchange between authors and audiences; it is now a formative part of both festivals\u2019 development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a great honor, but also so much fun, to present outstanding poets and prose writers from our region \u2014 Radmila Petrovi\u0107, Marko Poga\u010dar, Faruk \u0160ehi\u0107, and Ma\u0161a Kolanovi\u0107 \u2014 to a Scandinavian audience alongside names such as Roddy Doyle, Sofi Oksanen, and Joshua Whitehead. Our authors appeared within the framework of SPACES OF FREEDOM, KROKODIL\u2019s special travelling edition, as well as in other Littfest programs. Radmila Petrovi\u0107 and Marko Poga\u010dar, for instance, also read as part of Versopolis, the pan\u2011European poetry network. Ana \u0106ur\u010din\u2019s musical performance was especially well received, adding energy and a multimedia dimension to the literary program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second\u2011day debate entitled UNLEARNING HISTORY proved particularly timely and intellectually potent given recent geopolitical events. Our authors offered perspectives shaped by various personal experiences of the region’s wartime proximity in the 1990s, and the discussion proved thought\u2011provoking for both participants and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our time in Ume\u00e5 was a real pleasure, and we are excited to continue the collaboration with Littfest at the KROKODIL Festival in July. Northern Sweden\u2019s distinctive Sami literature will be presented in Belgrade by three authors: a unique blend of oral tradition, folk forms, and contemporary writing. Combining poetry with yoik \u2014 the traditional ritual song executed with shamanistic power and belief \u2014 the Sami program promises to be especially fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This cooperation has been funded by the Swedish Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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