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Ann Catrin Bolton — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:29:53 +0000

“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. ...

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Ann Catrin Bolton — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:37:17 +0000

“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 ...

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A stream of words and feelings

Ann Catrin Bolton — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:52:16 +0000

“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 ...

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Literary Evening with Mojca Kumerdej and Evald Flisar in Munich

Ann Catrin Bolton — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:19:17 +0000

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 ...

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Aleš Čar, O znosnosti (On Sufferableness)

wortstromer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:45:16 +0000

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 ...

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

wortstromer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:43:29 +0000

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 ...

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

wortstromer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:40:33 +0000

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 ...

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Jenko Award 2011 goes to Primož Čučnik

wortstromer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:37:04 +0000

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.” ...

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The Slovenian Book Agency (JAK)

wortstromer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:33:33 +0000

The Slovenian Book Agency (Javna agencija za knjigo, JAK), active since 1. January 2009, is part of the Slovenian ministry of culture; its task is the promotion and support of Slovenian literature and its authors. For this purpose it aims at stable conditions in all related fields and thus to promote high quality work in literature and science, especially the ...

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Side note to the Festival of German-Language Literature 2011

wortstromer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:31:43 +0000

When Maja Haderlap read in Klagenfurt, I thought: Quite nice, but I’ve read it all before somehow. In Slovenian novels no German publisher wanted. Especially in Tito, amor mijo by Marko Sosič. This one is set in Triest at the end of the sixties, and, from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy – who now and then rides on a ...

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