women’s poetry, journey to adulthood, existential questions, body awareness, precarity – Most promising young author of the Urška Young Literature Festival 2019 – Nominated as the best debut book of the Slovene Book Fair 2021 – Selected for the Pranger Festival 2021 – Also available as an audibook & as[…]
A year after the original book Sliding World came out, its author Nina Medved self-published an audiobook of 48 spoken poems, as well as two songs by esteemed Slovene musicians, who used her poems as lyrics. The poems were interpreted by the poet herself and recorded in the studio of[…]
The City of Koper, ZRS Koper and Beletrina publishing house awarded the second Euro-Mediterranean Literary Prize for outstanding literary achievements aimed at crossing borders and finding bridges between different social groups, cultural and religious communities. The first PONT Prize was awarded in 2018 to the late Bosnian-Slovenian poet Josip Osti.[…]
Sliding Poem, an artistic game, is an invitation to curiosity, to chat, to play with words. It is inspired by the poetry collection Sliding World. It consists of 125 tiles, lexical bits from the collection, which allow for a pleasant play with unusual and beautiful words. The selected fragments were[…]
The project Inside Out was designed by Nika Ferš, award-winning and highly respected designer of the younger generation. For me, she is one of those Slovenian creatives from whom I draw inspiration and am grateful to learn from. She invited me to work on an unusual project for me, which[…]
One of longest standing programmes for young Slovene authors is Urška. Each year, one author becomes the winner of the Most Promising Young Author of the year award. The author is chosen through several cycles of readings done by different comitees at each level and comes with the publication of[…]