Beletrina Academic Press

[4] In 1981 the Socialist Youth League of Slovenia (UK ZSMS) branch at the University of Ljubljana founded the publishing house Krt, an acronym for Knjižnica Revolucionarne Teorije (Library of Revolutionary Theory), meaning mole in English.

Krt began publishing anarchist texts with an intent to subvert the orthodoxy of government and inspire a sense of influence among students and youth in Ljubljana.

[7] The parent organization of Beletrina, Študentska Organizacija Univerze (Ljubljana Student Organisation), is the successor of the UK ZSMS and undertakes a wide variety of publishing activities and initiatives, including textbooks, criticism, and literature.

However the privatization of the publishing house sparked concerns about allocation of public funds for the support of culture and art to a private institution After spinning off into Beletrina, the founding rights were transferred from ŠOU Ljubljana to nine individuals, divided between Slovene authors and founders from the former Študentska Založba: the authors Andrej Brvar, Milan Dekleva, Niko Grafenauer, Milan Jesih and Veno Taufer, and the founders Aleš Šteger, Mitja Čander, Tomaž Gerdina and Marko Hercog.

[12] Notable Slovene authors published by Beletrina include: Drago Jančar, Gabriela Babnik, Dino Bauk, Jurij Hudolin, Jernej Županič, Vitomil Zupan, Bronja Žakelj, Vlado Žabot, Goran Vojnović, Alojz Ihan, Samira Kentrić, Lojze Kovačič, Jani Virk, Suzana Tratnik, Zmago Šmitek, Ana Schnabl, Dušan Šarotar, Eva Mahkovic, Katja Perat, Jela Krečič, Mojca Kumerdej, and Feri Lainšček.