Anja Mugerli (born 1984) is a Slovenian writer. She studied at the University of Nova Gorica and the University of Primorska. [1] She has published several books. She is also an award-winning playwright. Besides Slovene, Mugerli is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian. She lives in Nova Gorica. [2]
She won the EU Prize for Literature for Cebelja Druzina.
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Nogometno društvo Gorica, commonly referred to as ND Gorica or simply Gorica, is a Slovenian football club based in the town of Nova Gorica. They are one of the most successful Slovenian clubs with four Slovenian PrvaLiga and three Slovenian Cup titles. The club plays its matches at the Nova Gorica Sports Park stadium with the capacity of 3,100 seats. As of the 2023–24 season, Gorica competes in the Slovenian Second League, the second tier of Slovenian football.
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Matej Mugerli is a Slovenian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2008, and from 2011 to 2020 for the Liquigas, Perutnina Ptuj, Adria Mobil, Synergy Baku and SPORT.LAND. Niederösterreich teams. He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Hrinkow Advarics.
Edvard Ravnikar was a Slovenian architect.
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Transalpina Square "; Slovene: Trg Evrope, meaning "Europe Square"), is a square divided between the towns of Gorizia, northeastern Italy, and Nova Gorica, southwestern Slovenia. The railway station of Nova Gorica is located at the eastern end of the square, on the Slovenian side.
The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature amongst European countries, and to highlight the continent's creativity and diversity.
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Lidija Dimkovska, born 1971, is a Macedonian poet, novelist and translator. She was born in Skopje and studied comparative literature at the University of Skopje. She proceeded to obtain a PhD in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest. She has taught Macedonian language and literature at the University of Bucharest and world literature at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia.
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