Goran Vojnović
| Goran Vojnović | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
11 June 1980 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, screenwriter, film director |
| Notable works | Čefurji raus!, Jugoslavija moja dežela |
| Notable awards |
Prešeren Foundation Award 2009 for Čefurji raus! Kresnik Award 2009 for Čefurji raus! |
Goran Vojnović (born 11 June 1980) is a Slovenian writer, poet, screenwriter and film director of Croatian origin.[1] He is best known for his 2008 novel Southern Scum Go Home (Slovene: Čefurji raus!) which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of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.[2]
Vojnović was born in Ljubljana. He studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. He published his first collection of poetry Lep je ta svet in 1998. His novel Čefurji raus! started out as an unfinished film script. It describes life of immigrant youth in the Fužine estate in Ljubljana, their everyday problems and cultural differences between locals and immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. For it he won the Prešeren Foundation Award[3] and the Kresnik Award in 2009. It has been translated and published in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian[4] and excerpts translated into German and English.[5]
In 2006 the short film Sretan put Nedime (Good Luck Nedim) for which he wrote the script won the Best Short Film Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival which got it a nomination for the European Film Academy Best Short Film Award for 2006.[6][7]
Published works
- Lep je ta svet, self-published poetry collection (1998)
- Čefurji raus! (Southern Scum Go Home!), novel (2008)
- Ko Jimmy Choo sreča Fidela Castra (When Jimmy Choo Meets Fidel Castro), collection of newspaper commentaries (2010)
- Jugoslavija, moja dežela (What Did You Do in the Yugoslav Wars, Daddy?), novel (2011)[8][9]
Filmography
- Sretan put Nedime, short film, writer (2006)
- Kitajci prihajajo, short film, writer & director (2008)
- Piran-Pirano, feature film, writer & director (2008)
References
- ↑ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Live Literature Festival (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ↑ "Razžaljeni policisti zaslišali avtorja (Offended Police Interrogate Author)". newspaper (in Slovenian). Dnevnik 23 January 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients
- ↑ Traduki European network for literature and books site
- ↑ Read Central Slovenian Literature in Translation site
- ↑ Sarajevo Film Festival Awards
- ↑ European Film Academy European Film Awards 2006 nominations
- ↑ Air Beletrina site
- ↑ Goran Vojnović Author's Catalogue on the JAK Slovenian Book Agency site
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Goran Vojnović. |
- Vojnović on his publisher's site
- Piran Pirano movie official site
- Sretan put Nedime on The Internet Movie Database
- Kitajci prihajajo on The Internet Movie Database
- Piran-Pirano on The Internet Movie Database
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