In the top ten for Kresnik Award this time Romans as many as seven publishers

The Kresnik jury this time made it through about two hundred of last year’s original adult novels, and the ten were selected from just under thirty. She has included the works of three authors and seven authors this time very different, as many as seven publishers. Two nominations can be rejoiced by Beletrina, Goga and Cankar’s publishing house, and one of the Mladinska knjiga and Pivec publishers, Mouse and Litera.

Igor Bratož, Seta Knop, Kristina Kočan, Tanja Petrič and Igor Žunkovič are cities in the top ten, which will be halved in exactly one month, are dedicated to Kaji Bucik Vavpetič after novel Silver ties (Cankar’s Publishing House), Miriam trees after Along the way it became angered (Pivec), Katarina Gomboc Czech after Romanesque debut No one gets to know anyone (Cankar’s Publishing House), Kazimir Kolar after Decisive (Goga), Ferry Lainšček For the last part of the trilogy Kurji shepherd, curly physics (Beletrina), Tanji Mastnak after Siberia: Antituristic novel (Youth Book), Vinku Möderndorfer for the novel Star, spoon and hour (Mouse), Tini Perić for the debut Cheese (Goga), Anji Radaljac For her second novel Ventricle (Liter) and Ani Schnabl after September (Beletrina).

The last two were together in ten in 2023 when they were nominated with partly Doll (Liter) and Tide (Beletrina), and Miriam Drev was in the 10th a year before that with a novel They are from the day and from the night (Pivec). Vinko Möderndorfer has been five times and five times in the top ten, and Feri Lainšček five times. Of which received two fireflies in 1992 for Instead of whom the flower blooms (Prešeren’s company) and in 2007 forMurish (Beletrina).

Jury president Igor Bratož said of this year’s ten selections: “It would be a boring repetition to say that it was to put together ten outstanding novels from the past year, which never completely comes out. The curse is simple: thinking about the range and the charge of individual works from the narrow selection with a disturbing rest, it always seems the same as to be two books for the perfect ten, more often – so this year – members and jury members face the conundrum that there are five too many.

Last year’s novels cannot be overlooked by a considerable number of genre works, after an explosion of criminals we may expect a trend of love novels, some more ambitious specimens of commemorative, biographical, fantasy and war writing. At our discretion, we have selected ten titles whose authors can offer the reader in a sovereign way to offer sometimes bold, sometimes poetic insights into a human being. We are now waiting for a re -reading and judgment, on the basis of which in a month, five selected novels will be sent to the final vortex, from which the new best novel of the year will rise on a bonfire evening. Whose favorites will be better and best, of course, I can’t know, but may not matter. The pleasure has been more than twenty great books in recent weeks, and I recommend the entire ten to read. « 

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Silver ties

Kaja Bucik Vavpetič is an established author of fantasy romances or fantasy published in English under the pseudonym Zoe Ashwood. It says on her website that these are sexy, paranormal stories intertwined with magic. Silver ties They are her first novel in motherhood; It was published in the new Cankar Publishing House Collection Relationships. It interweaves the influences of Slovene folk tradition, the fight between good and evil, and forbidden love that knows no boundaries. “I wanted the story to sound like Peter Klepec For adults that readers who grew up here would feel good about this world and would have been known to them, « said the author, who » writes romance in which a man is very much for « , sometimes asks if she lacks an experience of a broken heart.

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Along the way it became angered

At the center of the restorous narrative, which holds us in tension until the end of the novel, is a young woman, the daughter of a Slovenian woman and a Lebanese who moved to Ljubljana at eleven because of the civil war in her birthday, and from there her career ambitions and youthful curiosity drove into other European cities. Despite the unhealthy trauma from childhood, Lucia is a playful and realized personality – until he meets Alec. According to the Pivec publishing house, Miriam Drev « with a great deal of psychological insights, flexible language and clear dramaturgical design takes us on an exciting trip around space and time, which is always a trip of yourself, in hidden corners that wait for them to enlighten them. »

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No one gets to know anyone

The Romanesque debut of Katarina Gomboc Czech is accompanied by a year of life of a Masha anthropology student, who, in the politically tense refugee crisis, is experiencing an increasing crucifix between the conservative values ​​of his family and the complex world. It is introduced by a quote by the popular Irish writer Sally Rooney: « When humanity is on the edge of the abyss, I am writing again about sex and friendship. » Katarina Gomboc Czech was nicknamed Slovenian Sally Rooney. “In my novel, which is built from social events, the main topic is alienation from each other, partly by itself. The characters crawl past each other, ”she told Unmorn and indicated that he wanted to write his sequel.

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Fellow

“At first, puddles appear on the most unexpected public areas: shops, monuments, libraries … Then they begin to die young women in mysterious circumstances. Suicows remain unexplained, it seems that all paths lead to a single enigmatic character, « we read in the description of another novel Kazimir Kolar Fellow. « Is Theodor Baumann Altrightovec, Neo Nonaci, Internet Troll, Shitposter, Neo -function, accelerational, failed literary critic, street vandal, doomer, (anti) revolutionary, or merely a random evil personality that leaves traces around the world? » Literary sheets wrote Robert Kuretwho believes that earlier than the question of his identity is a issue of social phenomena and processes and to conceive their labels.

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A curry of physics

Feri Lainšček wanted with a trilogy Kurji shepherd “Finally to see your own childhood As it really was.  » Into Kurji physiciststhat follows A curry shepherd and Cock egg, Little Fêrek attends elementary school, and his parents still strive in every way to make the family soon with püjkla moved to a new house. The boy’s horizon is distinctly determined by the imaginative and dreamy images, which in the romance events gradually turn into archetypal patterns; The stories round into a large metaphor. “Everything that has happened to me in recent years in relation to the trilogy Kurji shepherdin a way, talks about my life with literature and creative procedures, « said the author, adding that when he set up the last dot, he really took a breather.

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Siberia

Tanja Mastnak is a job Siberia: Antiturist novel wrote for almost ten years. She visited Siberia twice, for the first time in the 1980s and second – and last time – in 1999. « Siberia is a huge expansion of untouched nature, where solitude gets some new meaning, » he believes. In the novel, a team of shamanism researchers takes place during the journey through Siberia, larger and smaller interpersonal dramas, which pull the reader into an in -depth experience of interactions in extreme conditions. As the author points out, she used shamanism as a symbol of incomprehensibility of foreign places we visit. More than discovering his secrets, it seemed important to understand modern tourism and present the problem of mysticism in modern society.

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Star, spoon and hour

The novel is part of the trilogy started by Vinko Möderndorfer with a novel Subtraction. “After her mother’s death, an unnamed protagonist returns to an apartment in which she spent much of her childhood and youth. He wants to go back in the past for one night and look at him with the eyes of the late relatives. Although the novel is happening for only one day, the fate of three generations of her family has been opened, from the First World War to the around the 1980s. It was particularly marked by the criminal persecution of the protagonist’s grandfather, « he wrote about the novel. When describing concrete historical events, the author asks questions about the nature of memory and truth, and how we are characterized by the time our ancestors experienced.

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Cheese

Cheese They are a novel about the dark chapter of Slovenian history, the erasure of more than twenty -five thousand people from the register of residents after the collapse of Yugoslavia. He talks about Mia and her family, who has been erased, and introduces the treatment of this topic into Slovenian literature, as well as the topics of establishing a new country from the perspective of the child. Tina Perić received an award for him the best literary debut over 40. Slovenian Book Fair. The jury recognized a book that addresses all generations and is distinguished by its exceptional literary quality and human warmth. “I am glad that as a society we are ready to hear such stories. To grow and heal together. There are many similar stories, at least 25,671. It is important to listen to this too, « the writer said.

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Ventricle

Robert Kuret is in Literary sheets wrote that this novel is « Comet in the field of Slovenian literary production: It seems that the possibility of a new writing in which prose and verse blends, radically non-bin-perceptions of characters, transmission of focus from individual to the question of community relationships based on the development of social intervention strategies, which has an ecological (materialistic-vitalist?) Thought in the basis of ecological (materialistic-vitalist; At the same time, intense self -correction, in which recognition of one’s own heterogeneity actually requires a high level of ethical self -esteem. As the novel would say: Even though it sounds utopian, it is time to move forward. ”Anja Radaljac released her second novel by Litera.

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September

““ “September It is not only a novel about growing up and violence, but also about friendship, love and writing, who make life bearable and have the power to alleviate pain, and discourage us from striving for others, « Beletrina wrote about the latest novel by Ana Schnabl. This treats domestic violence; husband and father violence against mother and daughter. Mom Evelin, such as the protagonist’s name, does not protect, although she chose it as a patron saint. Evelina’s story, based on photographs, essays and diary, is written by a confidant or storyteller. In her own words, the author felt awe into the subject, as « the victim of domestic violence in Slovenian society still adheres to the prejudice that they were » guilty, what about « , » so « she had to try not to make my book a document that would attach to these madness. »