Svetlana Slapšak, Lidija Dimkovska and Miomira Šegina

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.  

Svetlana Slapšak was born in 1948 in Belgrade and has a PhD in Classics. A critic, scholar and anthropologist, Slapšak has authored numerous works in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, classical studies, gender studies, Balkan studies and comparative studies. 

Lidija Dimkovska (1971, Skopje) has lived in Ljubljana since 2001. She has published seven collections of poetry, four novels, an American diary and a collection of short stories translated into seventeen foreign languages, and edited four anthologies. She is a recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Macedonian Novel of the Year and the regional Štefica Cvek Prize for her novel EMŠO.

Miomira Šegina was born in Srebrenica, grew up in Tuzla, and has lived and worked in Slovenia since 1980. She writes short stories, journalistic articles, reflections and travelogues. She has written three plays, a collection of short stories (Skozi rdečo, 2009), as well as bilingual books Dve drami – dva jezika (2012) and Skrivnost Blejskega jezera (2022).

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