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Evald Flisar (born 13 February 1945) is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright, editor and translator. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for three consecutive terms between 1995 and 2002 and is editor-in-chief of the literary and cultural magazine
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Biography

Flisar was born in 1945 in Gerlinci in the
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region of eastern
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. He attended secondary school in
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and studied
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at the
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, English and
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at Chiswick Polytechnic in London and for a while in Australia. Many of his books are
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and he is also an acclaimed playwright. He received the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1993 for his travelogue ''Popotnik v kraljestvu senc'' and his plays ''Kaj pa Leonardo?'' and ''Jutri bo lepše''.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients.
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Published works


Poetry

* ''Symphonia poetica'' (1966)


Prose

* ''Mrgolenje prahu'' (1968, novel) * ''Umiranje v ogledalu'' (1969, novel) * ''Tisoč in ena pot'' (1979, travelogue) * ''Južno od severa'' (1981, travelogue) * ''Lov na lovca'' (1984, short stories) * ''Čarovnikov vajenec'' (1986, novel) * ''Noro življenje'' (1989, travelogue) * ''Popotnik v kraljestvu senc'' (1992, travelogue) * ''Potovanje predaleč'' (1998, novel) * ''Zgodbe s poti'' (2000, short stories) * ''Velika žival samote'' (2001, novel) * '' Ljubezni tri in ena smrt'' (2002, novel) * '' Čaj s kraljico'' (2004, novel) * ''Mogoče nikoli'' (2007, novel) * ''Opazovalec'' (2009, novel) * ''Na zlati obali'' (2010, novel) * ''To nisem jaz: legoroma
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n'' (2011, novel) * ''Dekle, ki bi raje bilo drugje'' (2012, novel) * ''Začarani Odisej'' (2013, novel)


Prose Translated into English

* ''My Father's Dreams'',
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, London 2015.


Plays

* ''Sodniška zgradba'' (1969, radio play) * ''Vojaki ob koncu vojne'' (1970, radio play) * ''Kostanjeva krona'' (1970) * ''Ukradena hiša'' (1972, radio play) * ''Nimfa umre'' (1989) * ''Jutri bo lepše'' (1992) * ''Kaj pa Leonardo?'' (1992) * ''Naglavisvet'' (1993, radio play) * ''Tristan in Izolda: igra o ljubezni in smrti'' (1994) * ''Stric iz Amerike'' (1994) * ''Iztrohnjeno srce'' (1995) * ''Temna stran svetlobe'' (1995, radio play) * ''Angleško poletje'' (1997, radio play) * ''Sončne pege'' (1998) * ''Padamo, padamo'' (1998) * ''Poslednja nedolžnost'' (1999) * ''Enajsti planet'' (2000) * ''Nora Nora'' (2004) * ''Akvarij'' (2007) * ''Alica v nori deželi'' (2010) * ''Antigona zdaj'' (2012)


Children's literature

* ''Pikpokec postane svetovni prvak'' (2007) * ''Alica v nori deželi'' (2008)


References

1945 births Living people People from the Municipality of Cankova Slovenian editors Slovenian dramatists and playwrights Slovenian novelists Slovenian male short story writers Slovenian short story writers Presidents of the Slovene Writers' Association Slovenian children's writers University of Ljubljana alumni 20th-century Slovenian writers 21st-century Slovenian writers 20th-century male writers {{slovenia-writer-stub