Count Anton Alexander von AuerspergW
Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg

Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, also known under the name Anastasius Grün, was an Austrian poet and liberal politician from Carniola.

Zdenka BadovinacW
Zdenka Badovinac

Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer, who has served since 1993 as director of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum of Modern Art and the Metelkova Museum of Contemporary Art in Metelkova, an autonomous art, culture, and social center in Ljublijana.

Aleksander BajtW
Aleksander Bajt

Aleksander Bajt (1921—2000) was a Chetnik intelligence officer during the World War II and a Yugoslav and Slovenian economist, best known as being the most influential macroeconomist in Socialist Yugoslavia.

Milan DeklevaW
Milan Dekleva

Milan Dekleva is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist.

Desha DelteilW
Desha Delteil

Desha Delteil was a Slovenia-born dancer and artists' model.

Mate DolencW
Mate Dolenc

Mate Dolenc is a Slovene writer and translator. He writes novels, collections of short stories, children's books, travelogues and articles.

Anton FuntekW
Anton Funtek

Anton Funtek was a Slovene writer, poet, editor and translator.

Alenka GoljevščekW
Alenka Goljevšček

Alenka Goljevšček was a Slovene writer, essayist and playwright.

Branko GradišnikW
Branko Gradišnik

Branko Gradišnik is a Slovene writer and translator. He writes short stories and is a well-known columnist that writes for the newspaper Delo and other Slovene publications. In 2004 he was a candidate for mayor of Ljubljana.

Niko GrafenauerW
Niko Grafenauer

Niko Grafenauer is a Slovenian poet, essayist, literary historian, editor and translator. He is particularly known as author of popular children literature, and for his active participation in the Slovenian public life, especially in conservative and liberal conservative platforms.

Ignac GregoračW
Ignac Gregorač

Ignac Gregorač, was a Slovenian architect, journalist, and recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941.

Paula GrudenW
Paula Gruden

Paula Gruden or Pavla Gruden was an Australian poet, translator, and editor of Slovene descent.

Andrej HiengW
Andrej Hieng

Andrej Hieng was a Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.

Jurij HudolinW
Jurij Hudolin

Jurij Hudolin is a Slovene poet, writer, columnist and translator. He has published a number of poetry collections and novels and is known for the rich language he uses and a rebellious rejectionist stance towards the world.

Milan JesihW
Milan Jesih

Milan Jesih is a Slovene poet, playwright, and translator. He was the president of the Slovene Writers' Association between 2009 and 2011.

Taras KermaunerW
Taras Kermauner

Taras Kermauner was a Slovenian literary historian, critic, philosopher, essayist, playwright and translator.

Dragotin KetteW
Dragotin Kette

Dragotin Kette was a Slovene Impressionist and Neo-Romantic poet. Together with Josip Murn, Ivan Cankar, and Oton Župančič, he is considered the founder of modernism in Slovene literature.

Milan KomarW
Milan Komar

Milan Komar, also known as Emilio Komar was a Slovene Argentine Catholic philosopher and essayist.

Ferdo KozakW
Ferdo Kozak

Ferdo Kozak was a Slovenian author, playwright, editor and politician.

Juš KozakW
Juš Kozak

Juš Kozak, also known under the pseudonym Jalanov, was a Slovenian writer, playwright, and editor. He is best known for his autobiographic novels, such as Celica on his experience as a political prisoner, and Lesena žlica on life during World War II.

Taja KrambergerW
Taja Kramberger

Taja Kramberger is a Slovenian poet, translator, essayist and historical anthropologist from Slovenia. She lives in France.

Pavel KunaverW
Pavel Kunaver

Pavel Kunaver was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy, mountain climbing, skiing and caving in Slovenia.

Zofka KvederW
Zofka Kveder

Zofka Kveder was a writer, playwright, translator and journalist who wrote in Slovene and later in life also in Croatian. She is considered one of the first Slovene women writers and feminists

Dragotin LončarW
Dragotin Lončar

Dragotin Lončar was a Slovenian historian, editor, and Social Democratic politician.

Marija MakarovičW
Marija Makarovič

Marija Makarovič, née Jagodic, is a Slovene ethnologist.

Janez MenartW
Janez Menart

Janez Menart was a Slovene poet, best known for his Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classic French and English poetry and drama works into Slovene, including Shakespeare's sonnets.

Mira MiheličW
Mira Mihelič

Mira Mihelič, also known as Mira Kramer Puc was a Slovene writer and translator.

Fran MilčinskiW
Fran Milčinski

Fran Milčinski, also known by the pen name Fridolin Žolna, was a Slovene lawyer, writer and playwright.

Frane MilčinskiW
Frane Milčinski

Frane Milčinski was a Slovene poet, satirist, humorist and comedian, actor, children's writer, and director. He is considered one of Slovenia's foremost 20th-century satirists and entertainers.

Brane MozetičW
Brane Mozetič

Brane Mozetič is a Slovene poet, writer, editor and translator. He is known for his homoerotic poetry, his editorial work and his translations of works by Rimbaud, Genet and Foucault into Slovene.

Josip MurnW
Josip Murn

Josip Murn, also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov was a Slovene symbolist poet. Together with Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette, he was regarded as one of the beginners of modernism in Slovene literature. After France Prešeren and Edvard Kocbek, Murn was probably the most influential Slovene poet of the last two centuries.

Lili NovyW
Lili Novy

Lili Novy née Haumeder was a Slovene poet and translator of poetry. She is considered the first Slovene female lyric poet as well as one of the most important Slovene female poets in general.

Iztok OsojnikW
Iztok Osojnik

Iztok Osojnik is a Slovene poet and essayist. Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association.

Pavlina PajkW
Pavlina Pajk

Pavlina Pajk, née Doljak was an early Slovene poet, novelist, essay writer and biographer.

Tamara Griesser PečarW
Tamara Griesser Pečar

Tamara Griesser Pečar is a Slovenian historian.

Vid PečjakW
Vid Pečjak

Vid Pečjak was a Slovene author and psychologist.

Tone PerčičW
Tone Perčič

Tone Perčič is a Slovenian writer and translator.

Rajko PerušekW
Rajko Perušek

Rajko Perušek was a Slovene writer, translator, linguist and bibliographer.

Luiza PesjakW
Luiza Pesjak

Luiza Pesjak or Lujiza Pesjakova was a Slovene writer, poet and translator. She was the first woman to write a novel in Slovene.

Sebastijan PregeljW
Sebastijan Pregelj

Sebastijan Pregelj is a Slovenian writer. In the second half of the 1990s Sebastijan Pregelj (b.1970) called attention to himself with his collections of short stories. During the last ten years, he has undoubtedly proven his mastery of storytelling with his novels Leta milosti, Na terasi Babilonskega stolpa, Mož, ki je jahal tigra, Po srečno zvezdo and Kronika pozabljanja. Four of them earned him nominations for Best Novel of the Year Award. A wide variety of readers is drawn to his novels because of their broad and rich historical background, intertwined with legends as well as present-day reality and humorous motifs that manage to combine the magical with the spiritual and the mystical. The end result is oftentimes an intense thriller which merges with a gentle and profound love story. Sebastijan Pregelj has been featured in several anthologies in the Slovene, Slovak, German, Polish and English language. He is a member of the Slovenian Writers’ Association. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

Slavko PreglW
Slavko Pregl

Slavko Pregl, full name Vekoslav Pregl, is a Slovene writer, editor and publisher best known for his youth literature. He is the current director of the Slovenian Book Agency.

Marjan RožancW
Marjan Rožanc

Marjan Rožanc was a Slovenian author, playwright, and journalist. He is mostly known for his essays, and is considered one of the foremost essayists in Slovene, along with Ivan Cankar, Jože Javoršek, and Drago Jančar, and as a great master of style.

Andrej RozmanW
Andrej Rozman

Andrej Rozman is a Slovene poet, writer, actor, and street theatre producer. He writes poems and creates plays for children and also writes satirical poetry for adults.

Tone SeliškarW
Tone Seliškar

Anton "Tone" Seliškar was a Slovene writer, poet, journalist and teacher. He published poetry, short stories and novels and is also known for his young adult fiction. Together with Mile Klopčič, he is considered the foremost representative of Slovene social realist poetry of the 1930s and 1940s.

Peter SemoličW
Peter Semolič

Peter Semolič is a Slovene poet and translator. He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poems have been translated into English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Finnish, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian. He translates from English, French, Serbian and Croatian and also writes radio plays and children's literature.

Simona ŠkrabecW
Simona Škrabec

Simona Škrabec is a Slovene literary critic, essayist and translator who lives and works in Barcelona. She spent her childhood in the small town of Ribnica in theregion of Lower Carniola. She lives in Barcelona since 1992. Skrabec has translated several books from Slovenian to Catalan and from Catalan to Slovenian. In addition to these two languages, she is fluent in Spanish, German, English, French, Serbian, and Croatian.

Andrej E. SkubicW
Andrej E. Skubic

Andrej Ermenc Skubic is a Slovene writer, playwright, and translator.

Dominik SmoleW
Dominik Smole

Dominik Smole was a Slovenian writer and playwright.

Ivo SvetinaW
Ivo Svetina

Ivo Svetina is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He has won numerous awards for his plays and poetry collections. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia. In 2014 he was elected President of the Slovene Writers' Association.

Veno TauferW
Veno Taufer

Veno Taufer is a Slovenian poet, essayist, translator and playwright. Under the Communist regime, he was a driving force behind alternative cultural and intellectual projects in Socialist Slovenia, which challenged the cultural policies of the Titoist system. During the Slovenian Spring (1988–1990), he actively participated in the efforts for the democratization and independence of Slovenia.

Johann Gregor ThalnitscherW
Johann Gregor Thalnitscher

Johann Gregor Thalnitscher von Thalberg was a Carniolan lawyer, scholar of ancient inscriptions, chronicler, and historian.

Joseph UrbaniaW
Joseph Urbania

Joseph Urbania was a 20th Century Slovene Sculptor, who lived and worked in Austria for much of his life. His media was large-scale wood, stone, bronze and plaster religious sculptures for European cathedrals.

Angela VodeW
Angela Vode

Angela Vode was a Slovenian pedagogue, feminist author and human rights activist. An early member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, she was expelled from the Party in 1939 because of criticism against the Hitler-Stalin Pact. During World War II, she joined the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, but was expelled in 1942 because of disagreements with the Communist Party of Slovenia. In 1944, she was interned in a Nazi concentration camp. After the war, she was arrested by the Yugoslav communist authorities, trialed at the Nagode Trial and imprisoned for several years. After her release from prison she was excluded from public life for the rest of her life. In the 1990s, she became one of the foremost symbols of victims of totalitarian repression in Slovenia.

Anton VodnikW
Anton Vodnik

Anton Vodnik was a Slovenian poet, art historian, and critic. He was one of the most notable representatives of Slovene Catholic expressionism in the interwar period.

France VodnikW
France Vodnik

France Vodnik (1903–1986) was a Slovenian literary critic, essayist, translator and poet from Ljubljana. He was mostly active in the interwar period, when Slovenia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was the younger brother of the poet and critic Anton Vodnik.

Peter VodopivecW
Peter Vodopivec

Peter Vodopivec is a Slovenian historian and public intellectual.

Goran VojnovićW
Goran Vojnović

Goran Vojnović is a Slovenian writer, poet, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his 2008 novel Southern Scum Go Home which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of Interior.

Constantin von WurzbachW
Constantin von Wurzbach

Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.

Vitomil ZupanW
Vitomil Zupan

Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller. He is best known for Menuet za kitaro, describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans. In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under his pseudonym Langus. He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers.