Croatian Book Night - Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu

Visual identity of the 2025 Croatian Book Night.

“Reading is a must – no matter what (where, when and how)!”: Croatian Book Night 2025 opens at NSK

23 April 2025

On 23 April 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the opening of the 2025 Croatian Book Night, whose over 1,100 programmes in the upcoming days will bring together as many as 330 institutions on more than 260 locations all across Croatia. The Library once again hosted the opening of Croatia’s annual national programme marking World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April). NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević, Director of the Zagreb City Libraries Dr Sunčica Ostoić and ...

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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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The visual identity of the 2025 NSK escape room event.

ZOOBookathon: NSK 2025 escape room exploration of fascinating fauna in NSK collections

23 April 2025, 17.00 – 21.00 (final start time: 20.00)

On 23 April 2025 (17.00 – 21.00), the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will organise its 2025 escape room event. Prepared as part of this year’s edition of the Croatian Book Night, the programme will offer its participants a unique opportunity to explore the fascinating animal world hiding in the Library’s collections. Register for free! After the Library’s successful 2024 escape room programme, which spotlighted the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ivana Brlić...

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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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The visual identity of the 2024 Croatian Book Night.

Croatian Book Night 2024 to feature over 1,150 programmes

23 April 2024, 12.00

On 23 April 2024, at 12.00, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the opening of the 13th edition of Croatian Book Night, Croatia’s annual national programme marking World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April). Featuring more than 1,150 programmes, this year’s Night will be held under the theme Through the prism of a cataclysm: Books for rising to challenges (Kad je prizma kataklizma: knjige za izazovna vremena), with George The Booklover of Yore, the only surviving Bookosaurus Rex, as the 2024 Night’s ...

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Croatian Book Night 2024: Looking at books through the prism of a cataclysm

Programme registration deadline: 22 March 2024

On 23 April 2024, 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 13th edition of the Croatian Book Night. As Croatia’s annual national programme focusing on the popularisation of reading and promotion of books, the Croatian Book Night 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. Books as a means for averting cataclysms?

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