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Abstract Literary festivals have become authorities in the literary field, promoting works through charismatic persona of their author, and operating a transfer symbolic capital from most famous ones to newcomers. Some these are international, thus play role making world authorship literature. Based on quantitative qualitative study thirty-eight international festivals, this paper focuses way r...

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