Drago Jančar

Drago Jančar was born in 1948 in Maribor. He currently lives and works in Ljubljana. He is considered Slovenia's leading author and is the most well-known and widely translated Slovenian writer internationally. He studied law and worked as a journalist, editor, and screenwriter. He traveled to the United States and Germany. Jančar opposed the communist regime in his homeland and was imprisoned. As the president of PEN Slovenia from 1987 to 1991, he fought for the advent of democracy in Yugoslavia and Slovenia. He has been described as a "seismograph of a chaotic history." His rich body of work includes novels, short stories, novellas, essays, and plays. He has received numerous prestigious awards for his books. In 2011, he was awarded the European Prize for Literature. With his novel "That Night I Saw Her" (2010), he won the Slovenian Kresnik Award for the third time in the award's history and the Best Foreign Book Award in France in 2014.