Croatian Book Day

Visual identity of the 2025 Croatian Book Night.

Croatian Book Night 2025: Reading to be promoted in over 1,100 programmes

23 April 2025, 12.00

On 23 April 2025, at 12.00, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the opening of the 14th edition of the Croatian Book Night, Croatia’s annual national programme marking World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April). On more than 260 locations all across Croatia as many as 330 institutions – 180 public libraries, numerous bookstores, antiquarian bookshops, museums, but also schools, kindergartens, hospitals, elderly care homes and prisons – will take part in this national celebration of books and reading.

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Croatian Book Night 2025: To animals, from humans, with bookish love

23 April 2025

On 23 April 2025, marking this year’s World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April), the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the opening of the 14th edition of the Croatian Book Night. As Croatia’s annual national programme focusing on the popularisation of reading and promotion of books, the 2025 Croatian Book Night programme will again promote a wider public debate on the social status of the book and the importance of values associated with it in the contemporary society, for both the individual and the global community. Literature – ...

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Croatian Book Night 2024 makes the dinosaurs’ message heard: Rrrrrrrrread!

23 April 2024

On 23 April 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the opening of the 2024 Croatian Book Night, whose programme was held on more than 250 venues all across Croatia, featured over 1,200 events and brought together thousands of participants of all ages. The 2024 edition of the Croatian Book Night, Croatia’s annual national programme marking World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April) traditionally opened at the Library. After a welcome address by the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević and introductions by the President of the Publishers and Booksellers Association of the Croatian Chamber of Economy Slavko Kozina ...

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Detail from a page from "Judita" (1521), the first epic in the Croatian language.

22 April

Spotlighting the most famous work by Marko Marulić, “the father of Croatian literature”, the Croatian Book Day this year is observed against a background of the Year of Marko Marulić, Croatia’s year-round programme marking the 500th anniversary of Marulić’s passing. Established by the 1996 decision of the Croatian Parliament, the Croatian Book Day is celebrated on 22 April to commemorate the date of the completion of Judita, the first epic in the Croatian language, which earned its author, Marko Marulić (1450-1524), the title of “the father of Croatian literature”.

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