Lojze Kovačič

Books on prize lists

• Zrele reči

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  Kresnik 2010 · Shortlist

  Zrele reči

  AITitle translated by AI:“Mature Things”

  Lojze Kovačič · 81 when first published

  Novel · 479 pages · Autofiction

  AIAI-generated summary:An old writer living in a tower block in Ljubljana keeps a diary over his last decade, settling accounts with life, writing, love and family, and with Slovenes and Slovene identity.

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  Kresnik 2004 · ★ Winner

  Otroške stvari

  AITitle translated by AI:“Children's Things”

  Lojze Kovačič · 75 when first published

  Novel · 350 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:A headstrong, sickly boy grows up in a poor immigrant family in Basel between the wars, until the rise of Nazism forces the family to move to his father's unfamiliar homeland, Slovenia.