Book Night, the annual event intended to promote reading habits, will be held for the 7th time on Monday evening. The event will be marked by more than 600 libraries and cultural institutions across the country, with special programmes designed to popularise books and literature in general.

Scheduled to coincide with the globally marked World Book and Copyright Day, this year’s Book Night will centre on the future of books, with programmes about the intersection of technology and literature and digital formats prepared by libraries, schools, museums, and bookshops and offered to the public.

In another effort to promote reading, head of the Croatian Association of Publishers and Booksellers (ZNK), Miso Nejasmic, also announced a programme to issue certificates called Book Friends to hotels, restaurants, cafes, and other establishments who host book readings.

Book promotions, public readings, workshops, and other events will also be marked with a three-dimensional animation projected on the fountains in front of the National and University Library (NSK) in Zagreb, depicting an astronaut made of book excerpts. The NSK will also ceremoniously kick off the Book Night on Monday, by launching a symbolic rocket made of books.

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