Vesna Lemaić


Vesna Lemaić is a Slovene writer from Ljubljana.

Biography

Vesna Lemaić is a writer from Slovenia. In 2008, she entered the literary scene with a highly acclaimed short stories collection Popular stories. The book won three awards for a short story collection in Slovene. In 2010, her first novel The Dumping ground was published.
Regarding short stories, story "The pool" was placed into short stories collection Best European fiction 2014. Her stories were published in literary periodicals Literatura, Sodobnost, Dialogi, etc. Her radio drama Underpassenger was produced by Slovene national radio Radio Slovenija.
Lemaić's literary works have been translated into several languages, among them Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, Hungarian, Lithuanian, German and English.
She collaborates with ŠKUC Association in organizing annual international literary-musical festival Live literature that occurs every June in Ljubljana. In addition, she established reading club Anoymous readers and regularly carries out creative writing and group trash writing workshops.

Literary works

Popularne zgodbe, short stories collection Odlagališče, a novel

Short stories anthologies

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  • ''Pristojan život''

Other translations

  • ''Popularne priče''

Awards