Occupation Writer, Activist Education University of Ljubljana | Nationality Slovene Awards Prešeren Fund Award | |
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Genre Novel, short stories, radio drama, essays Notable works Tretji svet (Third World), 2007 Notable awards Prešeren Foundation Award Books Vzporednice, Games with Greta & Other Stories Similar Goran Vojnović, Brane Mozetič, Dušan Čater, Marko Sosič, Nejc Gazvoda | ||
Rastem s knjigo 2014 ime mi je damjan suzana tratnik maja weiss
Suzana Tratnik is a Slovenian writer, translator, activist, and sociologist. She has published six short-story collections, two novels, a play, and three works of nonfiction. Her books and short stories have been translated into many different languages while Tratnik herself has translated several English books into Slovene, including works from authors such as Judith Butler, Adrienne Rich, Ian McEwan, and Truman Capote.
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- Rastem s knjigo 2014 ime mi je damjan suzana tratnik maja weiss
- Suzana tratnik on vilenica 2010
- Life
- Works
- References
In 2007 Tratnik was awarded the Prešeren Foundation Prize, one of Slovenia’s most prestigious literary awards. Her most recent work, Games with Greta and Other Stories, is forthcoming in translation from Dalkey Archive Press.
Suzana tratnik on vilenica 2010
Life
Suzana Tratnik was born in 1963 in Murska Sobota, in Slovenia. She obtained her BA in sociology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, and her MA in gender anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Ljubljana, where she lives and works. Tratnik was deeply involved in the 1980s LGBT-rights movement in Yugoslavia and much of work continues to focus upon LGBT activism and scholarship in contemporary Slovenia.
Works
Short Stories
Novels
Children's
Drama