Zoran Knežević, Neven Ušumović and Ivan Antić

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.  

Zoran Knežević was born in 1958 in Sombor. He moved to Slovenia in 1995, where he completed his studies in Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. His first story, Muzikant, was published in the Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of Literary Writers of Other Nations and Nationalities in 1999. His collection of short stories, Dvoživke umirajo dvakrat (Cankarjeva založba, 2014), won the Best First Book Award.

Neven Ušumović (Zagreb, 1972) is a writer and translator. He graduated in Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Hungarian Studies and studied Turkish Studies. He has published four collections of short stories and a novel in Zagreb. His short story collection Zlata bureklina (2019) was awarded the Croatian Writers' Association Kamov Prize.

Ivan Antić (1981) has authored several books. His stories have been translated into many languages and included in various fiction anthologies. A translation of his short story collection, Membrane, membrane, was published in Slovenian by Cankarjeva založba in 2019. He translates fiction from Slovenian. His translation of Dane Zajc's Dol, dol won the Best Poetry Translation Award of the Serbian Translators' Association. In 2024, his book O tempora, o mores! was shortlisted for the Andrić Prize.

Host: Selma Skenderović