Slovene Writers' Association - Böcker

After World War Two, a train carries the physically and spiritually broken people who were taken from all over Europe to the German concentration camps back through the Netherlands to a sanatorium in Paris. The Triestine Slovenian, Radko Suban, wh...

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Dem visionaren bahnbrechenden Roman Die Katzenpest"e; der anerkannten slowenischen Schriftstellerin Maja Novak kommt im Rahmen der zeitgenossischen slowenischen Literatur ein besonderer Platz zu. Die Autorin eroffnet im vorliegenden Roman eine...

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La novela "e;El hombre a ambos lados de la pared"e; de Zorko Simcic se publico por primera vez en 1957 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, la ciudad en la que Simcic vivio entre 1948 y 1994. Sin embargo, la novela no se publico en Eslovenia hasta ...

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Lojze Kovacic wurde dem slowenischen Vater und der deutschen Mutter 1928 in Basel geboren. Dort betrieben die Eltern eine vergleichsweise erfolgreiche Schneider- und Kurschnerwerkstatt. Da der Vater die Schweizer Staatsangehorigkeit zuruckwies, wu...

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Katarina Marincic est incontestablement l'une des femmes de lettres slovenes contemporaines les plus cultivees, caracterisee aussi par la grande pertinence, justesse et precision de son ecriture, comme en temoigne, entre autre, l'ecart temporel qu...

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Of Freedom and God, Jeremi Slak and Jason Blake's translation of essays by Marjan Rozanc, contains a selection of essays from the 1995 collection O svobodi in bogu"e; (Of Freedom and God) that Andrej Inkret put together and edited. Left out of...

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Evald Flisar es uno de los pocos autores eslovenos que se han hecho conocidos fuera del pais con verdadero exito. Es mas, parece que Flisar - autor de quince obras de teatro y el dramaturgo esloveno mas reconocido internacionalmente - es mas estim...

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Fuzine Blues is a novel about the life and people of contemporary Ljubljana and about what happens behind apartment walls. Most of all, the novel addresses the lack of dialogue that allows ordinary things such as football, beer, and women to be di...

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"e;The poem is controlled silence"e;, wrote Milan Dekleva in his 1990s collection "e;Presezeni clovek"e; (Out-lived man). This poetic paradox, that has existed from the very beginning of Dekleva's writings and persisted through the...

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Traditional Slovenian literary criticism has always associated the name of Milan Jesih with the phrase poetic modernism. Viewed strictly from the perspective of literary science, this claim is justified, for Jesih's first poetry collection, "e...

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"e;Los textos dramaticos de Svetina toman como punto de partida los mitos y los cuentos de hadas del bagaje literario mundial, deconstruyendolos y convirtiendolos en historias nuevas en los que el dramaturgo se pregunta 'sobre las bases y las ...

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The novel Murisa continues the story of Feri Lainscek's work "e;Locil bom peno od valov"e; (I Will Divide the Foam from the Waves), published in 2003 and reprinted many times. Murisa, the second part of Lainscek's trilogy about the Mura Ri...

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Svetlana Makarovic draws extensively on folklore, especially on balladic poetry. She developed this resource in a distinctly individual fashion by faithfully maintaining the rhythm and lexis of the traditional ballad; her heartbreaking ballads spe...

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Davorin Lenko (1984), Slovenj Gradec (Slowenien), studierte Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Philosophischen Fakultat der Universitat Ljubljana. Seit 2010 hat er Kurzprosa und gelegentlich auch Poesie und Essays in allen wichtigeren slow...

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Das Jugendbuch Wie im Film"e; von Vinko Moderndorfer handelt vom zwolfjahrigen Bruno, der am liebsten beim McDonald's isst und im Netz herumhangt, der in der Schule nur einen einzigen Freund hat, denn die Mitschulerin Tina schamt sich seiner G...

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Gabriela Babnik, l'ecrivaine slovene, est nee en 1979 a Goppingen en Allemagne. Son roman "e; La Peau en coton (2007) a obtenu le Prix du meilleur premier roman decerne par la Foire du Livre slovene et "e; Intime (2015), son dernier roman,...

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Though Murn's oeuvre ranges from erotic pieces to poems about the countryside, from atmospheric and reflective to narrative poems, the boundaries between these categories are often blurred. His most acclaimed works are his countryside lyric poems ...

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Tomaz Salamun confronts the abyss and overcomes it by creating an even deeper abyss in an incredibly physical language that swallows the original. This new metamorphosed abyss is, then, more like a well, nurturing even as it brings forth its water...

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In Lacki roma, a destitute Roma settlement, the strange and stubborn Sanji is born to father Mariska and mother Tereza. One night, Mariska commits murder, stumbling home wounded with officers in hot pursuit. In the final hours of his freedom, he r...

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Dane Zajc belongs to the first post-war generation of poets who brought modernism to Slovene poetry. Sharing sentiments of a tense, sceptical and disillusioned worldview, they relinquished intimate testimony in lieu of an impersonal portrayal of r...

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"e;Na zobeh aluminij, na ustnicah kreda"e; (Aluminium on Teeth, Chalk on Lips) is Kristina Hocevar's fifth book of poetry. This collection earned Kristina Hocevar the Jenko Award for the best poetry book of the past two years; the book was...

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Simoniti's protagonists in "e;Teufelssprache"e; ("e;The Devil's Tongue"e;) are often "e;multi-settlers,"e; people from multinational environments (e.g. from Trieste or Istria), uprooted, alienated from self and surrounding ...

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The Night the Beetles Come Out of the Ground (To noc bodo hrosci prilezli iz zemlje, 2014) is the third poetry collection by Jana Putrle Srdic. Coming after her first, widely acclaimed books - her debut Quinces (Kutine, 2003) and Anything Could Ha...

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Ivan Cankar is considered one of four representatives of Slovenian modernism (in addition to Murn, Kette, and Zupancic). In 1899, which is now considered the beginning of Slovenian modernism, Zupancic's debut collection of poetry "e;Casa opojn...

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Mate Dolenc's novel Morje v casu mrka (Sea at Eclipse) is one of the most beautiful islands in the author's literary archipelago. In this work, Dolenc succeeds in summoning to the page all of his acquaintances, friends, fictional and actual heroes...

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Werkstuckchen (Delci dela, 2013) ist der vierte von bislang funf Gedichtbanden Jure Jakobs (1977), eines der namhaftesten und auch weithin beliebten modernen Literaturschaffenden Sloweniens - von seiner Popularitat zeugt allein schon die Tatsache,...

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Every morning the memories are a little different. The world of Sebastijan Pregelj's novel A Chronicle of Forgetting is governed by dementia. In his previous novels and stories Pregelj has taken us to incredible, fantastic worlds, to worlds of the...

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Veronika Dintinjana war schon bald nach Erscheinen dieses Buches eine der besten Vertreterinnen der jungen Dichtergeneration und gilt bis heute als wichtiger Name der modernen slowenischen Poesie. Sie tritt wie eine Dichterin mit einem auerordentl...

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In Blackberry Heaven, a young woman named Jana, who comes from the Slovenian countryside, finds herself in Amsterdam, where she meets Bepi, an old man from eastern Italy who sells live fish at a flea market. They each carry within them a number of...

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Reserveleben ist eine mitreisende Geschichte uber das Schicksal zweier am Kopf miteinander verwachsener siamesischer Zwillinge mit vielsagenden Namen: Zlata (die Goldene) und Srebra (die Silberne). Im Fokus steht ihr Kampf um Individualitat, Priva...

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