The Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency is the main civilian intelligence service in the Republic of Slovenia and as a government agency is subordinated directly to Prime Minister of Slovenia. The mission of SOVA as the central intelligence and security service in the Republic of Slovenia is to provide for national security. The agency's headquarters are located at Stegne Street in Dravlje, northwest of Ljubljana's centre.
Tanja Ribič is a Slovenian actress and singer.
Vasko Simoniti is a Slovenian historian and politician. Between 2004 and 2008, he served as the Minister of Culture of Slovenia. He is an active member of the Slovenian Democratic Party.
Karel Dežman, also known as Dragotin Dežman and Karl Deschmann, was a Carniolan liberal politician and natural scientist. He was one of the most prominent personalities of the political, cultural, and scientific developments in the 19th-century Duchy of Carniola. He is considered one of the fathers of modern archeology in what is today Slovenia. He also made important contributions in botany, zoology, mineralogy, geology and mineralogy. He was the first director of the Provincial Museum of Carniola, now the National Museum of Slovenia. Due to his switch from Slovene liberal nationalism to Austrian centralism and pro-German cultural stances, he became a symbol of national renegadism.
Stari Log is a settlement in the hills north of the town of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. The village has a cistern and traditional village pond. Raven Spring, a karst spring southwest of the village, is accessible by 13 flights of steps and was once an important site for hunting frogs.
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 Leta milosti, Na terasi Babilonskega stolpa, Mož, ki je jahal tigra, Po srečno zvezdo and Kronika pozabljanja. Four 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 and humorous motifs that manage to combine the magical with the spiritual and the mystical. The end result is oftentimes an intense thriller which merges with a gentle and profound love story. 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. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Anja Štefan is a Slovene writer, poet and story teller.
Lojze Kovačič was a Slovene writer. His novel The Newcomers is often considered one of the most important Slovene novels of the 20th century and has been translated into German, French, Spanish, and Dutch.
Kajetan Kovič was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist.
The Slovenian Book Agency is an autonomous government agency in Slovenia that was created to promote the importance of books and reading in Slovenia and beyond.
Anton Ingolič was a Slovene writer, playwright, and editor. He is best known for his novels and youth literature.
Ivo Svetina is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He has won numerous awards for his plays and poetry collections. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia. In 2014 he was elected President of the Slovene Writers' Association.
Vinko Möderndorfer is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright and theatre and film director.
Tomo Virk is a Slovene literary historian and essayist.
Majda Koren is a Slovene children's writer and teacher. She also works with the youth programme section of the Slovenian national broadcester.
Polonca Kovač, true name Magdalena Kovač, is a Slovene children's writer and translator. She has published numerous children's books and is also known for her translations for young readers, most notably the entire collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales and The Diary of Anne Frank.
Mate Dolenc is a Slovene writer and translator. He writes novels, collections of short stories, children's books, travelogues and articles.
Branka Jurca was a Slovene writer, principally for children and young adults.
Damijan Stepančič is a Slovene painter and illustrator, best known for his children's books illustrations.
Pavel Kunaver was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy, mountain climbing, skiing and caving in Slovenia.
