Aleš Čar, O znosnosti (On Sufferableness)

Families have always been the best place for those small, every day hells, that behind a carefully preserved façade of apparent normality and harmlessness mercilessly and in all sorts of ways elixates their members down to nothing. In te new novel by Aleš Čar that has been published at the end of last year, the narrator – a member of …

Maja Gal Štromar, Boginja z zamudo (Goddess With Delay)

Recently the new book of poetry by Maja Gal Štromar was published, a woman who is not only a poet and writer, but also an actress, a translator, a drama educator and a professor of rhetoric. Like her, also her Goddess With Delay features something for all senses: Beginning with the book cover in shiny purple and deep red, which …

Modra ptica award 2012 goes to Stanka Hrastelj for her novel Igranje

Stanka Hrastelj, writer, poet, translator and presenter at literary readings was awarded with the Modra ptica, the new and presently most remunerative (€ 12.000) award for literature, granted by the publishing house Mladinska knjiga. Igranje is her first work of prose, so far she has published two books of poetry and many of her texts can be found in collections …

Jenko Award 2011 goes to Primož Čučnik

The Slovenian Jenko Award, which is granted each year by the Slovenian Writers’ Association for the best poetry book of the last two years this year goes to Primož Čučnik for his eighth book Kot dar (Like a present). According to the jury it is a “fusion of reflection, imagination and emotionality, so it could tersely be termed tender intellectualism.” …