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Selection from the essays about the Slovenian customs, culture and way of living, written for www.siol.net between 2014 and 2017.

Goga, 2017, 320 pages, ISBN: 978-961-277-181-2.

Picture book about envy and how to handle it.

Illustrated by Tanja Komadina.

Mladinska knjiga, 2017, 32 pages, ISBN: 978-961-01-4951-4.

A tragedy of confusions (based on a true fate)

He wanted to go home but he forgot where home was. He was very old so everybody else already forgot about him (or didn't want to remember him).

The play was selected as United Kingdom finalist for Creative Europe Playwriting Award for POP Drama.

Out of 347 texts, Going Home ended second.

A literary thriller about a man, who buys not only a stolen iPad but a deadly secret with it.

Goga, 2016, 334 pages, ISBN: 978-961-277-135-5.

Novel for young adult readers (12+)

Mladinska knjiga, 200 pages, ISBN: 9789610140450.

Modra ptica award for the best YA novel.

An autographic novel in fictitious stories.

Goga, 236 pages, ISBN: 978-961-277-096-9.

Kresnik award for the best novel of the year.

One story selected for Best European Fiction 2018 anthology.

Selection from the essays about the Slovenian customs, culture and way of living, written for www.siol.net between January 2013 and June 2014.

Goga, 270 pages, ISBN: 978-961-277-084-6.

Novel.

The state has taken her identity and now they've come for her child.

1. Slovenian edition: Goga, 210 pages. ISBN: 978-961-277-056-3.
2. Serbian edition: Orion Art, 2015, 223 pages, ISBN: 866389026-8.
3. Macedonian edition: Goten Publishing, 2015, 273 pages, ISBN: 978-608-4625-54-4-8.

Novel

An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassja Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's why he sets off on a journey to fame in a black comedy with a twist in its tale.

Freight Books, 2004, ISBN: 978-1908754394.

Slovenian edition published in 1987.

USA edition published in 2004 under the title The Cartier Project.

Detroit Free Press has named The Cartier Project as one of her Top-Ten novels of 2005.

Nonfiction book about writers and creativity.

E-besede, 2012, 240 pages. ISBN: 9789616693974

• English Kindle edition, 2014, ISBN: 978-961-6922-35-7

TV documentary about Mexican music craze in the communist Yugoslavia.

Director and screenwriter.

Gustav film, 45 minutes.

Short stories.

Eleven short stories from everyday life.

Goga, 110 pages. ISBN: 978-961-277-028-0.

Novel.

A man has signed his own death warrant. And now he is tempted back to life with love, music and beauty.

1. Slovenian edition: Beletrina, 285 pages, ISBN: 978-961-242-509-8.
2. English edition: Open Books, 2014, ISBN-13: 978-0692253656.

TV film.

Screenwriter.

RTV Slovenia, 58 minutes.

Stageplay.

Ekslibris, 64 pages, ISBN: 978-961-6838-37-5.

Selection from the essays about the Slovenian customs, culture and way of living, written for www.siol.net between May 2010 and June 2011.

Goga, 220 pages, ISBN: 978-961-277-016-7.

Short film.

Director and screenwriter.

Gustav film, TV Slovenia and Slovenian Film Fund, 9 minutes.

• The best short film of the year at the Slovenian film festival 2011!
• The best short film of the South East European Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA, 2012!

Short story collection.

Ten stories, ten persons or objects that won't remain in the past ...

Goga, 136 pages, ISBN: 978-961-6421-94-2.

Novel.

Yugoslavia 1950: government secret agents in long black leather coats are everywhere, people are disappearing during the night. Only ray of hope is an unique charity where every ticket is free and everyone wins, where stakes are getting higher and higher, until one day somebody wins a jackpot …

Beletrina, 155 pages, ISBN: 978-961-242-271-4.

1. English edition: CB Editions, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-9567359-3-5.
2. German edition: Transit Verlag, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-88747-335-8.

Manual for googling.

Rokus Klett, 2009, ISBN: 978-961-209-988-6.

1. Hungarian edition: Klett Kiadó, 2009, ISBN: 978-963-9641-65-5.
2. Indian edition: Harper Collins, 2012, ISBN: 978-935-0292310.

Stage play.

Two very different men in an airport chapel. One with a bomb, the other with God (maybe).

Stage play was selected as 'the most excellent, skillfully written and complex' in the PreGlej competition.

Gledališče Glej and MGL, 2008

International web video project.

The same script filmed with actresses from different countries.

Screenwriter and director of Slovenian (8:28) and Italian (9:57) film.

Project was nominated for the Prix Europe award.

Short story collection.

What if you suddenly see in a clear moment  that all of your life is based on a lie? Would you try to ignore it, fight it, will you stay broken? Fourteen moments, fourteen decisions, fourteen stories.

Beletrina, 355 pages, ISBN: 978-961-242-110-6.

Novel for young adult readers (12+)

Založba Grlica, 155 pages, ISBN: 961-6501-91-7.

Novel was shortlisted for Desetnica award for the best Slovenian novel for young readers in 2006.

Novel

Egon was 12 and he wanted a record player. You can win friends with a record player or chat up a girl, invite her to listen to your records. But in order to get a record player, Egon will have to defeat a neurotic mother, a madly religious grandmother, a sadistic teacher - not to mention souls and angels.

Scala House Press, 2004, ISBN: 9-780972-0287-5-2.

Slovenian edition published in 2001.

Novel

An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassja Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's why he sets off on a journey to fame in a black comedy with a twist in its tale.

Scala House Press, 2004, ISBN: 0-9720287-4-9. Slovenian edition published in 1987.

Detroit Free Press has named The Cartier Project as one of her Top-Ten novels of 2005.

Manual

Tips & tricks for the user of Windows, Winword, Outlook, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express.

Pasadena, 106 pages.

Short film

Director and screenwriter.

Arsmedia, TV Slovenia and the Slovenian Film Fund, 14 minutes.

Novel

He was born a freak. With above-average intelligence, which soon realises that a body bent on destruction cannot live among others. The only person who can help him is a Mafia don, who has enough money to isolate the monster. But nothing comes free. And now, the moment when the freak has to repay the favour has arrived. He has to come out of isolation and become a bodyguard of a woman named Hanna for a week.

Scala House Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-9720287-1-4.
North Atlantic Books, 2008,  ISBN: 978-1-55643-726-7.

Click here to read the reviews.

Slovenian edition published in 2000.

1. Booksense's THE DAILY PICK
2. Nominated for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2004
3. Novel was selected by critics as 4th best foreign novel of the year 2008 in Serbia

Essays

All you ever wanted to know about everyday life but you didn't have anybody to ask.

Založba Goga, 131 pages.

Novel

Egon was 12 and he wanted a record player. You can win friends with a record player or chat up a girl, invite her to listen to your records. But in order to get a record player, Egon will have to defeat a neurotic mother, a madly religious grandmother, a sadistic teacher - not to mention souls and angels.

Beletrina, 286 pages. Second Slovenian edition: 2008.

1. American edition: Scala House Press, 2004, ISBN: 9-780972-0287-5-2.
2. Croatian edition: Fraktura, 2005
3. Chech edition: Argo, 2005
4. Italian edition: Fazi Editore, 2008

Feature film

Screenwriter

Produced by ArsMedia and the Slovenian Film Fund, 110 minutes.

The premiere was at the 4th Slovenian Film Festival March 30, 2001. The film won:

1. The award for best feature film
2. The award for best actress - Veronika Drolc
3. The award for best screenplay - Miha Mazzini
4. The Synchro film award for the producer of the best film - Franci Zajc
5. The Slovenian film critics' award for best film
6. the Stop magazine award for the best actress of the year - Veronika Drolc

1. Special award for achievement at the 3rd film festival in Motovun, Croatia (2001)
2. Golden Palm for best film at Mostra de Valencia XXII (2001)
3. FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) film prize at the Troia Film Festival in Portugal (2002)
4. "Der Heinrich" award at The Braunschweig Filmfest, Germany (2002)

Novel

He was born a freak. With above-average intelligence, which soon realises that a body bent on destruction cannot live among others. The only person who can help him is a Mafia don, who has enough money to isolate the monster. But nothing comes free. And now, the moment when the freak has to repay the favour has arrived. He has to come out of isolation and become a bodyguard of a woman named Hanna for a week.

Beletrina, 333 pages.

1. American edition: Scala House Press, 2002
2. New Slovenian edition by Dnevnik/DZS, 2004.
3. USA, 2nd edition: North Atlantic Books/Random House, 2008
4. Serbia: Klett, 2008
5. Poland: Grube Ryby, 2008
6. Italy: Nikita Editore, 2011, ISBN: 9788895812069.
7. Turkey: Altın Bilek Yayınları, 2015, ISBN: 9786055831929.

Picture book for children aged 6-9.

Kres, 32 pages.

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

Short film.

Director and screenwriter.

God gave man free will.
The horror of existence starts the moment we must begin to use this divine gift.

Produced by E-motion film, TV Slovenia and the Slovenian Film Fund, 15 minutes.

Best director award on The Highgate Film Festival, London (2001).

Scriptwriting manuals: How to write a script, How to use WinWord for scriptwriting. Scripts: The Cartier Project, Thomas and Sweet Dreams

Triona, 424 pages.

TWO SCRIPTS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

Manual

Tips&tricks for the power user of Winword and manual for WordBasic programming language.

Pasadena, 454 pages. With CD-ROM.

Manual for the computer program.

Pasadena, 388 pages.

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

Novel

A man with very heightened senses (he can see bacteria floating in the air; bodily fluids oozing from every single pore in human skin) falls in love with a woman. But to love is to touch. Can love overcome his senses?

Wieser, 199 pages.

Manual for the programming language.

Self-published, 704 pages.

Novel

Night on an island. The well behaved and polite demon will come from the woods and ask you for your name. If you answer, you are left without a name. Can anybody live without it? Even through that single night?

Sklad Vladimir Slejko, 173 pages, 30,000 copies!

The novel was chosen as one of the best five novels of the year in Sklad Vladimir Slejko’s competition.

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

TV film

Screenwriter.

Produced by TV Slovenija, 90 minutes.

Winner of Prix CIRCOM REGIONAL Fiction 1992, winner 1991 Slovenian film of the year, selected by the audience, Borut Veselko - actor of the year, selected by the audience.

SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH

Manual for first time users of personal computers.

Grad, 84 pages. With video tape and diskette.

Manual for the programming language.

Self-published, 500 pages.

Short stories.

Stories from this book have appeared in numerous foreign anthologies. Two stories were made into short films.

Self-published, 157 pages.

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

Manual for the programming language.

Self-published, 204 pages.

Novel

An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassja Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's why he sets off on a journey to fame in a black comedy with a twist in its tale.

Prešernova družba, 165 pages, 54,000 copies!

The book sold 54,000 copies and won a national award for Best Slovenian Novel and the 'Zlata ptica' award for excellent artistic achievement by a young writer. The book was made into the film The Cartier Project awarded the CIRCOM Award for the Best European TV Film of the year 1992.

1. American edition: Scala House Press, 2004
2. new Slovenian edition with DVD, Rokus, 2006
3. UK edition: Freight Books, 2014, ISBN: 978-1908754394
4. Macedonian edition: Antolog, 2015, ISBN: 608243087-5

Poems, songs for the (non-existent) punk band and short stories.

Self-published, 70 pages.