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Bronja Žakelj

Born 1969 · Slovenia

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Books on prize lists

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    Kresnik 2019 · Winner

    Belo se pere na devetdeset

    Title translated by AI:“Whites Are Washed at Ninety”

    Bronja Žakelj · 49 when first published

    Novel · 259 pages · Autofiction, Family, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:Bronja grows up in a block of flats in Ljubljana in the 1970s and 1980s, in a world of parents, a younger brother, a grandmother and visiting aunts and uncles, until illness strikes her beloved young mother.