Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the most well-known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement. Jančar's novels, essays and short stories have been translated into 21 languages and published in Europe, Asia and the United States. The most numerous translations are into German, followed by Czech and Croatian translations. His dramas have also been staged by a number of foreign theatres, while back home they are frequently considered the highlights of the Slovenian theatrical season. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Iztok Osojnik is a Slovene poet and essayist. Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association.
Dušan Šarotar is a Slovenian writer, essayist, literary critic and editor.
Sebastijan Pregelj is a Slovenian writer. In the second half of the 1990s Sebastijan Pregelj (b.1970) called attention to himself with his collections of short stories. During the last ten years, he has undoubtedly proven his mastery of storytelling with his novels. Five of them earned him nominations for Best Novel of the Year Award. A wide variety of readers is drawn to his novels because of their broad and rich historical background, intertwined with legends as well as present-day reality that manage to combine the magical with the spiritual and the mystical. In 2020 Pregelj won The Cankar Prize, a new literature award for the most original piece of literature from the previous year - either fiction, play, essay or poetry, for »V Elvisovi Sobi«, a novel about a generation which was growing up while the former Yugoslavia was slowly disintegrating. Sebastijan Pregelj has been featured in several anthologies in the Slovene, Slovak, German, Polish and English language. He is a member of the Slovenian Writers’ Association and Slovene PEN centre. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Berta Bojetu was a Slovene writer, poet and actress. She was one of the first Slovenian authors in the second half of the 20th century to address the question of Jewish identity in her literature.
Peter Rezman is a Slovene poet, writer and playwright. He lives and works in Plešivec near Velenje in northern Slovenia.
Slavko Pregl, full name Vekoslav Pregl, is a Slovene writer, editor and publisher best known for his youth literature. He is the current director of the Slovenian Book Agency.
Evald Flisar is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright, editor and translator. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for three consecutive terms between 1995 and 2002 and is editor-in-chief of the literary and cultural magazine Sodobnost.
Jurij Hudolin is a Slovene poet, writer, columnist and translator. He has published a number of poetry collections and novels and is known for the rich language he uses and a rebellious rejectionist stance towards the world.
Barbara Korun is a Slovene poet. She is one of the leading figures in the generation of radical young women poets in Slovenia and her poems have also been translated into English and published in the USA and Ireland.
Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović is a Slovene poet, essayist, writer, editor and potter.
Vinko Möderndorfer is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright and theatre and film director.
Zdenka Žebre was a Slovene writer, best known for her books with an African theme.
Gabriela Babnik is a Slovene writer, literary critic and translator. She has published three novels and her journalistic literary and film criticism regularly appears in national newspapers and magazines in Slovenia.
Majda Koren is a Slovene children's writer and teacher. She also works with the youth programme section of Radiotelevizija Slovenija, the Slovenian national broadcaster.
Andrej Rozman is a Slovene poet, writer, actor, and street theatre producer. He writes poems and creates plays for children and also writes satirical poetry for adults.
Mate Dolenc is a Slovene writer and translator. He writes novels, collections of short stories, children's books, travelogues and articles.
France Forstnerič was a Slovene poet, writer, and journalist.
Belokranjka Katka Zupančič was a Slovene-American poet, author and teacher. Primarily a Slovene children's writer, much of her poetry conveys a child's impression of major events, and her stories explore the difficulties of immigrant life and women's status. Her works of prose examine characters' psychology and social issues of the time, placing women, often with emotional distress, in the roles of protagonists.
