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The Frankfurt After The Frankfurt (Slovene : Frankfurt po Frankfurtu) is the traditional Slovenian foreign books trade fair held each year in November at Mladinska knjiga, Bookstore Konzorcij, where a selection of the books published by foreign publishers and presented at Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany) the same year is presented and sold. [1]

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In 2018, it will be held in Cankarjev dom from 20. till 25. November.

History

In 2016 it was the 30th edition of the fair in Ljubljana. [2]

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References

  1. This year's the FpF brings France and Žižek Archived 2013-04-23 at the Wayback Machine , Dnevnik, Ljubljana, 12 November.
  2. Frankfurt po Frankfurtu: Berem zeleno, Frankfurt po Frankfurtu: Berem zeleno