Young Pen: Introducing the eight authors of the generation

Doroteja Drevenšek (2005)

“I have a school notebook full of better and worse starting points. I write on a sheet, I lose my computer and a lot of material. Everything is happening very quickly. Then once a year I choose songs worthy of their Word document, « said the poet and first year student of the AGRFT theater, so she also deals with film and theater directing. The latter is also reflected in her poetic work, for which she is looking for inspiration everywhere, she says. “I also like to play style. I have been looking for sincerity and fun lately in poetry. « 

Lara Gobec (2001)

The poetry of the author, who studies true and comparative literature in Ljubljana, is not only intertwined with dramatics but also with essayism, since her general « approach to literature is such that I always try to place it in a poetry context. I am particularly interested in communication breaks and silent; Where is what remains unspoken all the time, and why we remain silent. Of course, in dramatics, I am thinking about stage layout, which extends the other poetry relationship between the reader and the poetry text to the relationship between the audience and the text uttered. « 

Gal Grobovšek (1999)

His poetic practice is strongly conditioned and supplemented by the work he performs as a designer; After Carniola High School, he continued his education at ALUO, direction industrial design, and for the last two years he has acted as a house designer of Layer’s house, and for the last half a year also the publishing house Black Box, where he published a poetry collection last year Jazz pank. “Writing with me is not planned, but it is impulsive. Poetry, along with other expressive categories that are crucial in my work – design, photography and music, specific punk – at first a quick recording of my response to the thing in question and then quickly communicate to others. « 

Manca Lipoglavšek (1999)

Although it also writes prose and poetry, dramatics is closest to her, she says, because she can get closer to the audience through staging with her. “For theater writing, living interaction between material and audience is crucial; Dramatics exists in Medprostor between an independent literary genre and a template for staging, so, according to some, it is never completed until it has a performance and comes to life. Modern, Adept and Cinema!she also acted as the editor -in -chief Adept.

Nejc Ledinek Hovnik (2004)

The written language must be poetic and expressive, away from the talk language, says proseist Nejc Ledinek Hovnik. In addition to prose, he occasionally writes poetry and drama. “My writing style is changing from work to work, but I would say that in those years I have already created a core that is really mine. Usually, my style is poetic, expressive, full of symbolism, with strong descriptions and internal monologues. I

Manca Marinko (2003)

The author of the poetic debut The language of the circumstances He says that he tries to write in his work « what is all in common, but no one knows that we are. » She started writing in high school comparative literature and literary theory and Francistics at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Poetry « offers her answers when I have only questions, that is, when I do not understand something, and prose allows me to present something I already understand, but it seems important for me to understand anyone else. » For art is one of the most effective means available to a person to see meaning in life, he says.

Alja Pušič (2003)

« Whatever I write, it is a song, » says the author, who is not limited to writing poetry, but “at the same time I have not felt any other artistic landscape than myself. Definitely poetry expresses the values ​​I seek in movement and people – it is direct, not circulation, is in unprotected, vulnerable forms. ”In tandem with jazz musician Gasper Trees, under the name Bambus, he also devotes himself to his poetry. The poet, who also deals with scenery while studying architecture, does not discuss its substantive positions, as he believes that « content is not one of the criteria of poetry. »

Ana Kumperger (2005)

In her work, the author does not use Rome or specific metric schemes and releases punctuation, she says, she is more attentive to the rhythm and the words. “However, in content and structure, I tend to be more leaning in the traditional direction of writing, as I address the themes of death, love, solitude and transience. I am close to literary impressionism. I like to observe the world around me and hunt for details, and the feelings I perceive in myself, try to pour into something tangible. ”When there is enough new songs or short stories, she wants to release another collection, but does not force writing, believing that the opportunity will be offered when it is ready.