Svetlana Makarovič

Svetlana Makarovič was born on 1 January 1939 in Maribor. After graduating in 1968 from the theatre academy in Ljubljana, she acted at the Municipal Theatre and then at the city's national theatre before devoting herself to writing, and she also sings her own texts. Her poetry, opened by a first collection in 1964, draws on popular and mythical images to speak of evil and distress; her stories for children give animals names and characters of their own. In 2000, she refused to receive in public the Prešeren Prize that had been awarded to her.

In the catalogue 1

• TaleSapramiškaSvetlana Makarovič · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature