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Participants in the 2024 Croatian Book Month quiz awards ceremony.

“Big Small Stories”: Croatian Book Month 2024 closes with its reading promotion quiz awards ceremony

15 November 2024

On 15 November 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the awards ceremony of Big Small Stories, this year’s edition of the national online quiz aimed at the promotion of reading and held as part of the Croatian Book Month, Croatia’s annual national programme successfully spotlighting books and reading for almost thirty years. The awards ceremony also marked the closing of the Month’s this year’s edition, themed I will listen to your story…. Organised by the Zagreb City Libraries public ...

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The visual identity of the 2024 Croatian Book Month.

“I will listen to your story…”: Croatian Book Month 2024

15 October – 15 November 2024

The Croatian Book Month 2024, this year’s edition of Croatia’s annual national programme successfully promoting books and reading for almost thirty years, opened on 15 October at the new building of the Rijeka City Library. Traditionally organised by the Zagreb City Libraries public library network under the auspices of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the Month is themed I will listen to your story…, spotlighting the value of telling stories and focusing on literary forms making the basis of oral literature, such as fairy tales and legends, which are constantly ...

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“Dragi Lastane”, logotype of documentary by Irena Škorić.

“Dear Lastan!”: 70 years of “Modra lasta”, Croatia’s iconic teenage magazine

5 – 22 November 2024

From 5 to 22 November 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting the exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Modra lasta, Croatia’s longest-running teenage magazine. Spotlighting Lastan, the magazine’s hugely popular agony uncle, better still, a “big brother” figure for countless generations of Croatian teenagers over the past seven decades, the exhibition is jointly being organised by the Library, Croatian School Museum, Croatian Association of School Librarians and the Školska knjiga company, which has published

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