The greatest pride of the ten International Literary Festivals Vilenica, from the first in 1986 to this year’s, are clearly the ten award winners, ten great names of contemporary, in particular Central European, literature. Additionally, 316 authors from fourteen Central European countries, countries with their literatures of the “Europe in between”, participated in the ten Vilenica events, publishing their texts in those ten anthologies. Among them, there were 63 Slovene poets and writers, whose texts are collected in this special publication, which marks the occasion of the tenth anniversary. It is not a classic anthology, nor a cross-section representing contemporary Slovene literary creativity. […] Leaf through this book and take it as an invitation to visit Slovene literature, as an invitation and provisions for the road, for a journey into a splendid, picturesquely varied world, where literature pulsates with intensity.

From the afterword by Veno Taufer

Authors represented in the anthology Vilenica Desetnica 1986–1995

Andrej Blatnik, Berta Bojetu, Andrej Brvar, Aleš Debeljak, Milan Dekleva, Janko Ferk, Branko Gradišnik, Niko Grafenauer, Maja Haderlap, Ivanka Hergold, Andrej Hieng, Alojz Ihan, Drago Jančar, Gustav Januš, Milan Jesih, Dušan Jovanović, Milan Kleč, Edvard Kocbek, Matjaž Kocbek, Miklavž Komelj, Srečko Kosovel, Miroslav Košuta, Lojze Kovačič, Kajetan Kovič, Lojze Krakar, Marko Kravos, Rade Krstič, Feri Lainšček, Florjan Lipuš, Svetlana Makarovič, Andrej Medved, Ivan Minatti, Boris A. Novak, Marjeta Novak Kajzer, Boris Pahor, Tone Pavček, Aleksander Peršolja, Denis Poniž, Jure Potokar, Alojz Rebula, Zorko Simčič, Dominik Smole, Jože Snoj, Ivo Svetina, Tomaž Šalamun, Rudi Šeligo, Igor Škamperle, Veno Taufer, Marjan Tomšič, Saša Vegri, Jani Virk, Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonovič, Dane Zajc, Ciril Zlobec, Uroš Zupan, Vitomil Zupan, Vlado Žabot, and Aldo Žerjal.