Born 1958 · Italy, Slovenia
Kresnik 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Short Novel about Snow and Love”
Marko Sosič · 56 when first published
Novel · 204 pages · Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:Alma and Olga, two Slovenian women from Trieste who have not met in twenty years, begin to miss each other; Alma, married and living in Asiago, watches her son grow into a neo-Nazi who scorns her and her language.
Kresnik 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“You Who Come from Afar into My Nearness”
Marko Sosič · 54 when first published
Novel · 345 pages
AI-generated summary:Ivan Slokar, a Slovenian natural sciences teacher in Trieste, seems to have everything for a fulfilled life, until a dark stain from his past begins to spread over his present during a few days in April 2006.
Kresnik 2006 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Tito, My Love”
Marko Sosič · 47 when first published
Novel · 187 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:A Slovene boy growing up near Trieste in the 1960s, who struggles to spell Italian at school, listens to his relatives' dark wartime stories and dreams of one day meeting Marshal Tito with his mother.