“It was calm in the family. The costumes for the roles of the mothers, fathers, daughters and sons were hanging in the apple tree at home and waiting for worse times. There are moments of a certain closeness, when the heaviness of the domestic terrain changes its state of matter and becomes lightness. When it’s just possible to say more. …

“Suddenly an incident from my childhood came to my mind, when I, a shy little boy, went from my parents‘ house at the edge of an endless-seeming forest deeper and deeper into the mystic realm of copse and trees – until one day I came to a street at the other end of the forest. And saw my parents‘ house …

A stream of words and feelings

“No, this is not a story. It has no structure, no beginning, no end. It is one single wish.” The wish to get a hold on something that actually is not really comprehensible for us. The narrator of Maja Gal Štromar’s prose work Misli name, ko ti je lepo (Think Of Me When You Are Fine), which was published last …

Literary Evening with Mojca Kumerdej and Evald Flisar in Munich

On May 23rd at 7 pm a literary evening with the popular Slovenian authors Mojca Kumerdej and Evald Flisar took place at Literaturhaus München, Bibliothek, Salvatorplatz 1, Munich. The evening was hosted by the consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia in cooperation with the lectorate for Slovenian at the LMU and SO-Übersetzen. The authors read from their works together …