Presumably the most important US editor for Europe and the Balkans, John O'Brian , founder of the Dalkey Archive Press publisher is to feature this year's edition of the international literary festival 'PRO-ZA Balkan'.
The eminent guest comes as part of the 'Skopje fellowship' program, which is a project that is supported each year in the frames of the festival.
Dalkey Archive Press is one of the most renowned publishing houses in northern America and one of the rare companies that publish literary translations and have established a professional distribution on the US market.
The publisher is also known for its annual anthology of European novelist works in which it promotes some 30 authors from Europe before the US readers.
John O’Brien is the founder and publisher of Dalkey Archive Press and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. For over 30 years, during which time he was also a Professor of Literature, he has devoted himself to promoting literature in translation, as well as championing the rights of translators in academia. He has published well over 700 books from over 40 different countries, and his own literary criticism has appeared widely in newspapers and journals in both the United States and other countries.
In 2006, he moved Dalkey Archive to the University of Illinois in order to help the University establish its new Center for Translation Studies. In 2011, on behalf of Dalkey Archive he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the highest recognition afforded to a publisher in the United States.