The association was founded on 21 April 1872 in Ljubljana[1] at the initiative of Davorin Trstenjak who also became its first president.
[1] The constituent congress was held on 14 September 1872 while regular meetings took place in the Hotel Evropa until the 1885.
It provides a platform for writers, poets, playwrights and essayists who participate to promote common cultural and social inetersts.
Its international activities include maintaining contacts with cultural institutions and writers' societies all around the world and collaborating with literary journals and magazines.
[3] Its own publication Litterae slovenicae (called Le Livre Slovène before 1991) publishes excerpts, poems and short stories by Slovene writers in translation, making Slovene literature available to a world audience.