Gabriela Babnik (born 1979) is a Slovene writer,

literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

and translator. She has published three novels and her journalistic literary and film criticism regularly appears in national newspapers and magazines in Slovenia. Babnik was born in Göppingen in Germany in 1979. She studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and then travelled to Africa, particularly

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...

, which has become the inspiration for much of her work. She holds an MA on the Contemporary Nigerian Novel and has also translated Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel ''Half of a Yellow Sun'' into Slovene (Slovene title: ''Polovica rumenega sonca''). Her first novel ''Koža iz bombaža'' won the Best First Book Award at the Slovenian Book Fair in 2007. Her third novel ''Sušna doba'' won the 2013 European Union Prize for Literature (Slovenia).

Published works

* ''Koža iz bombaža'', 2007 * ''V visoki travi'', 2009 * ''Sušna doba'', 2011 Delo
7 February 2012

Translated into English

"Dry Season": London,

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, 2015.

Translated into Italian

"La stagione secca" (transl. by M. Obit): Milano-Udine,

Mimesis edizioni Mimesis (; grc, μίμησις, ''mīmēsis'') is a term used in literary criticism and philosophy that carries a wide range of meanings, including '' imitatio'', imitation, nonsensuous similarity, receptivity, representation, mimicry, the ...

, 2017.

References

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