Born 1959 · Slovenia
Kresnik 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Chicken Physics”
Feri Lainšček · 65 when first published
Novel · 239 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age, Family · Kurji pastir, book 3
AI-generated summary:Growing up in Dolenci in Prekmurje, young Fêrek puzzles over truths that can be one thing and another at once, while his parents struggle to build a house and he falls in love for the first time.
Kresnik 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Hen Herder”
Feri Lainšček · 61 when first published
Novel · 297 pages · Autofiction, Family, Coming of age · Kurji pastir, book 1
AI-generated summary:In 1959, in Dolenci in the Goričko hills near the Hungarian border, Trejzka gives birth late in life to a second child, a boy later named Feri, while her husband Pištek is away working on the roads.
Kresnik 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Untouchables”
Feri Lainšček · 48 when first published
Novel · 178 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A would-be Roma king tells the story of four generations of his family, from a grandfather who escaped a Nazi camp to Tito's Yugoslavia, framed by the legend of the nail that drives the Roma to wander.
Kresnik 2007 · Winner
Muriša
Feri Lainšček · 47 when first published
Novel · 187 pages · Love, Historical, War
AI-generated summary:On the eve of the Second World War a young engineer in Prekmurje builds a bridge over the river Mura that shaped his parents' fate, and falls into a love that proves impossible.
Kresnik 2004 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“I Will Part the Foam from the Waves”
Feri Lainšček · 44 when first published
Novel · 317 pages · Love, Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:During the First World War a young woman in Prekmurje who never wanted a husband marries an older river supervisor and moves to Murska Sobota, where she discovers the dark sources of his wealth.
Kresnik 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Rooster's Breakfast”
Feri Lainšček · 40 when first published
Novel · 231 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A young apprentice at a car repair shop on the edge of a small town joins the eccentric mechanic's circle of drinking friends, all dreaming of change, and falls in love with the wife of the local nightclub owner.