The ''Bukla Magazine'' (in Slovene: ''Revija Bukla'') (bukla is a colloquial Slovene term for "a book") is a free

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n monthly magazine in which current Slovene non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

History and profile

''Bukla'' is issued free of charge since 2005.The Bukla Magazine has its 50th issue printed
(in Slovene: ''Revija Bukla dosegla 50. številko''), MMC

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, 10 February 2010. The magazine has its headquarters in

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and is published by UMco. Most reviews are done by in-house staff, and some also by outside reviewers commissioned by the magazine to do the review. Each issue contains an interview with an author who appears on the cover of the magazine, starting with its 69th issue. The authors interviewed by Bukla Magazine include

Boris Pahor Boris Pahor, OMRI (; 26 August 1913 – 30 May 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Ita ...

Renata Salecl Renata Salecl (born 1962) is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and holds a professorship at Birkbeck College, Univ ...

Goran Vojnović Goran Vojnović (born 11 June 1980) is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his 2008 novel ''Southern Scum Go Home'' () which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was ...

Miha Mazzini Miha Mazzini (born 3 June 1961) is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director with thirty published books, translated in ten languages. He has a PhD in anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis and has MA in Creative Writi ...

, Evald Flisar, Jani Virk,

Milan Jesih Milan Jesih (born April 14, 1950) is a Slovene poet, playwright, and translator. He was the president of the Slovene Writers' Association between 2009 and 2011. Jesih was born in Ljubljana in 1950. He studied comparative literature at the Univ ...

Aleš Debeljak Aleš Debeljak (25 December 1961 – 28 January 2016) was a Slovenian cultural critic, poet, and essayist. Biography Debeljak was born in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to a family wi ...

Mladen Dolar Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951) is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist and film critic. Biography Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French l ...

, and

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek ( ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distin ...

. 30,000 copies are distributed to libraries, book stores, cinemas and other cultural institutions, where they can be picked up by visitors. Online copies of the printed version are available at the

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