Born 1966 · Slovenia
Kresnik 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“All My Americas”
Štefan Kardoš · 51 when first published
Novel · 311 pages · Family, Migration, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Twenty years after his grandfather's death, a writer sets out to keep a childhood promise to write a novel about him: Šandor the American, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who lived there again after the First World War.
Kresnik 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Wind and Echo”
Štefan Kardoš · 49 when first published
Novel · 191 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Adam Teodor Vogrinski, once an acclaimed musician whose life fell apart after his wife's suicide, takes a job as a music teacher in a village school ruled by its headmaster, who is also the mayor.
Kresnik 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Slope of the Sunny Hill”
Štefan Kardoš · 44 when first published
Novel · 195 pages
AI-generated summary:A loner from a remote village, given a landscape painting by his colleagues after twenty years with his firm, is carried by it into memories of three women who marked his life.
Kresnik 2008 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Riesling Polka”
Štefan Kardoš · 41 when first published
Novel · 189 pages · Satire, Love
AI-generated summary:In the vineyards of Prekmurje a wealthy winegrower overjoyed that his Russian partner, a former bar dancer, is finally pregnant hears tavern gossip that the child may not be his, and sets out to find the father.
Kresnik 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Sextant”
Štefan Kardoš, Norma Bale, Robert Titan Felix · Štefan Kardoš 36, Norma Bale 30, Robert Titan Felix 30 when first published
Novel · 281 pages
AI-generated summary:Three thirty-somethings in Prekmurje, a poet, a woman and a man haunted by inner voices, try in different ways to escape their stifling surroundings; their stories meet in a Murska Sobota bar on a football night.