Žanina Mirčevska, Ana Lasić and Ivana Djilas

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.  

Žanina Mirčevska was born in 1967 in Skopje, where she graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts and then continued her postgraduate studies in dramaturgy in Ljubljana. She is a dramaturge working on various productions in Slovenia and abroad, as well as an author of numerous essays on playwriting and a prolific playwright.

Ana Lasić is a screenwriter and playwright. She graduated in dramaturgy in 1999 from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where she worked as a dramaturg and critic. Her first feature film, Ruševine (with director Janez Burger), won the Best Slovenian Film Award at the 2004 Slovenian Film Festival. Her book Intuitivna scenaristika was published by the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities in 2022.

Ivana Djilas was born in 1976 in Belgrade and has lived and worked in Slovenia since 1999. She is a theatre director, writer and journalist. Known for her distinctive poetics, Djilas has directed around fifty different performances in various Slovenian theatres. She has received several awards for her work in theatre. She wrote the acclaimed novel Hiša and a unique collection of autobiographical essayistic stories A si lahko vsaj enkrat tiho.

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