Born 1967 · Slovenia
Kresnik 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Happy Days”
Andrej E. Skubic · 54 when first published
Novel · 437 pages · Family, Crime
AI-generated summary:The quiet retirement of Dušan, a widower living in an old people's home, is broken when detectives come asking about his daughter Leja, a successful dramaturge at a city theatre, who cannot be reached.
Kresnik 2015 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Just Come Home”
Andrej E. Skubic · 47 when first published
Novel · 268 pages · Politics, Family, Love
AI-generated summary:Leon Berden, a brilliant young lawyer who casts himself as a champion of the exploited, neglects his cold, politically ambitious wife and their small daughter for a tender affair, in a world of tycoons, legal tricks and banking fraud.
Kresnik 2012 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“How Much Are You Mine?”
Andrej E. Skubic · 44 when first published
Novel · 327 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:When his girlfriend of fifteen years tells him she is pregnant by another man, a Ljubljana film producer retreats to his home village in the Upper Savinja valley and starts a fight with a neighbour over a patch of land.
Kresnik 2010 · Shortlist
Andrej E. Skubic · 42 when first published
Novel · 273 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Two very different women, both outsiders secretly akin to a woman once acquitted of witchcraft, are driven by hostile circumstances to bloody acts, while an anonymous online crowd watches and comments.
Kresnik 2007 · Shortlist
Andrej E. Skubic · 39 when first published
Novel · 236 pages
AI-generated summary:In Ljubljana in 2006 a single, thirty-nine-year-old history graduate stuck in a dull job at a travel agency dreams up a city tour of sites of public executions and becomes fascinated by a beautiful new neighbour.
Kresnik 2002 · Shortlist
Fužinski bluz
Andrej E. Skubic · 34 when first published
Novel · 206 pages
AI-generated summary:On 13 June 2000, the day Slovenia plays Yugoslavia at football, four neighbours on the tenth floor of a tower block in Ljubljana's mixed Fužine estate each try to change something in their lives.
Kresnik 2000 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Bitter Honey”
Andrej E. Skubic · 32 when first published
Novel · 328 pages · Migration, Love
AI-generated summary:A group of young English translators working in Ljubljana and their Slovene colleagues trade stories about jobs, lovers and life in Slovenia over drinks, while one of them plots revenge on a professor who harassed her.