Barbara Rigler, Aleksandra Gačić in Marijanca Ajša Vižintin

Immigrant authors will address the importance of immigrant literature, the conditions for creativity in Slovenia and their participation in Slovenia's main literary events and festivals.  

Barbara Rigler graduated in Comparative Literature and Sociology of Culture and completed her Master's degree at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She is a literary producer at the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities and the editor-in-chief of Mentor magazine. Her professional work focuses on writers of all ages writing in Slovenian and in their mother tongues.

Aleksandra Gačić is a literary critic whose work focuses mainly on African literature, motifs of foreignness in Slovenian literature, literalised themes of racism, otherness, migration, etc. She launched Iniciativa Afrike, a literary and performance initiative, with Maša Kagao Knez and Dalanda Diallo in 2021.

Marijanca Ajša Vižintin is a research associate at the Slovenian Migration Institute, ZRC SAZU, author of several scientific articles and the scientific monograph Intercultural Education: the Integration of Children of Immigrants (2017). She is a co-editor (2013–14 and from 2024) of the scientific journal Dve domovini/Two Homelands.

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