Born 1948 · Slovenia
Kresnik 2018 · Winner
In ljubezen tudi
Drago Jančar · 69 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · War, Love, Historical
AI-generated summary:In Maribor under German occupation during the Second World War, two young lovers from middle-class families, Sonja and Valentin, dream of a future together, until the occupiers' violence drives Valentin to join the Partisans.
Kresnik 2011 · Winner
To noč sem jo videl
Drago Jančar · 62 when first published
Novel · 185 pages · War, Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Five people who knew her, among them a former lover, her mother, a German army doctor and a maid, recall Veronika, a carefree, eccentric young woman from Ljubljana's high society, who vanished during the Second World War.
Kresnik 2009 · Shortlist
Drevo brez imena
Drago Jančar · 60 when first published
Novel · 274 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:An archivist in Ljubljana comes across the memoirs of a wartime serial seducer and of a psychiatric nurse, and his growing obsession with them draws him into the dark past of the Second World War and of his own childhood.
Kresnik 2001 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Katarina, the Peacock and the Jesuit”
Drago Jančar · 52 when first published
Novel · 472 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:In the 18th century a Carniolan steward's daughter, tired of waiting for an imperial army captain she loves, joins a pilgrimage to Cologne, where she meets a former Jesuit novice on the road.