Fran Levstik was a Slovene writer, political activist, playwright and critic. He was one of the most prominent exponents of the Young Slovene political movement.
Alojz Rebula was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator, and a prominent member of the Slovene minority in Italy. He lived and worked in Villa Opicina in the Province of Trieste, Italy. He was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Goran Vojnović is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his 2008 novel Southern Scum Go Home which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of Interior.
Vlado Žabot is a Slovene writer and journalist. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for two terms between 2003 and 2007.
Andrej Ermenc Skubic is a Slovene writer, playwright, and translator.
Milan Dekleva is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist.
Mojca Kumerdej is a Slovene writer, philosopher and critic. She works as the cultural chronicler for the daily newspaper Delo.
Anton Ingolič was a Slovene writer, playwright, and editor. He is best known for his novels and youth literature.
Beno Zupančič was a Slovene writer and journalist. He is best known for his novels and youth literature.
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.
Lojze Krakar was a Slovene poet, translator, editor, literary historian, and essayist. He also wrote poetry for children.
Jani Virk is a Slovene writer, poet, translator and editor. He writes poetry, short stories, essays, novels and scripts and translates from German into Slovene.
France Forstnerič was a Slovene poet, writer, and journalist.
Smiljan Rozman was a Slovene writer, author of numerous novels and collections of short stories who also wrote for young readers and scripts for children's programmes and drama series on television.
Frane Milčinski was a Slovene poet, satirist, humorist and comedian, actor, children's writer, and director. He is considered one of Slovenia's foremost 20th-century satirists and entertainers.
Ela Peroci was a Slovene children's writer, author of numerous children's stories that are considered classics in Slovene children's literature. Her best known story is Muca Copatarica, illustrated by Ančka Gošnik Godec, which has seen numerous reprints and has sold over 140,000 copies.
Miroslav Šuput is a Slovene painter and illustrator.
Ive Šubic was a Yugoslavian painter, graphic artists and illustrator.
Marij Pregelj was a Slovene painter, considered one of the key figures in Slovene painting in the second half of the 20th century.
The Water Man was the first Slovene art ballad. It was written around 1825 by the Slovene Romantic poet France Prešeren and published in 1830 in the first almanac of Krajnska čbelica. It is a narration about Urška, a flirt from Ljubljana who ended up in the hands of a handsome man who happened to be a vodyanoy. The poem was based on a story from The Glory of Carniola about a dance at Old Square in Ljubljana in July 1547, when Urška Šefer was enchanted by a vodyanoy and pulled into the Ljubljanica. Prešeren wrote it against the backdrop of his unfulfilled love for Zalika Dolenc. In the first publication of the poem, Urška was named Zalika. Later, in Prešeren's Poems (1847), she was named Urška.
