Rastko Močnik

Rastko Močnik (1944) is a retired Professor of Sociology of Culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His fields of interest are primarily the theories of ideology, the theories of discourses, theoretical sociology, theoretical psychoanalysis, semiotics, and the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. In the previous two decades, he has significantly contributed to the generational renewal of the local theoretical production in historical materialism.

Robert Simonišek

Robert is a poet, writer, literary critic, essayist and art historian. He regularly publishes his po- etry and prose, as well as liter- ary reviews and articles, in var- ious national and international magazines and newspapers.

In 2021, his work Pejsaži – Sanjati na soncu (Landscapes - Dreaming in the Sun) received the Svetlobnica and Rožanc awards for the best essay.

Samira Kentrić

Samira Kentrić (1976) is a visual artist, illustrator and performer. She has illustrated several books of humanist thinkers and depicted news concern- ing international affairs, about the Middle East, the Obama phenomenon and the process of EU integration, as well as religious conflicts and social issues. Her work has been published in Slovenia, the Netherlands and in the USA, and she has performed and exhibited in various cities across Europe. Her speciality is editorial illustration – i.e. the visual rendering of political commentary – and she is known for fusing public, political dis- course with the intimate sphere of our everyday lives. In 2010, one such Kentrić work was included in the prestigious American Illustration Catalog, and she has since then published two acclaimed graphic novels: Balkanalia (Balkanalije, 2015) and Letter to Adna (Pismo Adni, 2016).

Sašo Jerše

Dr. Sašo Jerše (b. 1974), an associate professor, is a noted Slovenian historian of the middle generation, teaching Slovenian history of the early Modern Age at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. He is the author of numerous research papers on pre-modern political history and on the history of pre-modern Church and mentalities.

Štefan Turk

Štefan Turk (Trieste, 1974) graduated in art history from the University of Trieste. He also attended an illustration course under the tutelage of renowned illustrator Svjetlan Junakovič at the International School of Illustration in Sarmede near Treviso. He exhibited in Italy, Slovenia and abroad. He regularly publishes illustrations in the Trieste children's magazine Galeb, he also collaborated with the children's magazines Ciciban, Zmajček and Mavrica. He illustrated three picture books and one electronic book.

Suzana Bricelj

Suzana Bricelj is a Slovenian illustrator and visual designer, born in 1971 in Ljubljana. After graduating in visual communication design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1998, she pursued further studies in Bratislava and Paris. Upon her return to Slovenia, she focused mainly on illustrating children's picture books and books, and her illustrations have also been used in children's magazines and school textbooks.

Suzana Tratnik

Suzana Tratnik (1963) has published seven collections of short stories: Pod ničlo (Below Zero, 1997), Na svojem dvorišču (In One’s Own Backyard, 2003), Vzporednice (Parallels, 2005), Česa nisem nikoli razumela na vlaku (Things I’ve Never Understood on the Train, 2008), Dva svetova (Two Worlds, 2010), Rezervat (Reservation, 2012), and Noben glas (No Voice, 2016), five novels: Ime mi je Damjan (My Name is Damian, 2001), Tretji svet (Third World, 2007), Tombola ali življenje! (Bingo or Life!, 2017), Norhavs na vrhu hriba (Madhouse on the Hilltop, 2019), Pontonski most (A Pontoon Bridge, 2020) and Ava (2021), a children’s picture book Zafuškana Ganca (The Hany Rattie, 2010) as well as a monodrama Ime mi je Damjan (My Name is Damian, 2002) and a radio play Lep dan še naprej (Have a Nice Day, 2012). She has also published four non-fiction books on the lesbian rights movement, literature and activism. In 2007 Tratnik received the national Prešeren Fund Award for Literature, in 2017 the Novo mesto Short Award for best short story collection, and in 2018 the Desetnica Award for best children’s or YA work. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

The two central themes of Tratnik’s fiction are destinies of people living on the margin of today’s urban world and growing up in the 1960s and 1970s Yugoslavia.

A selection of Tratnik’s stories was published in the English translation in Games with Greta and Other Stories (Dalkey Archive Press, 2016).

Tatjana Pregl Kobe

Tatjana Pregl Kobe was born on July 31, 1946 in Maribor. She is a graduate of Art History and works as an art critic, writer, poet and essayist. She studied at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana at the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Art History, and graduated in 1978 under the supervision of Professor Dr. Nace Šumi. One of her most important academic works is the book Slovenian Book Illustration (Slovenka knjižna ilustracija) (1979), in which she laid the foundations for further research in this field with a wealth of documentation material and analytical assessment. As an art critic and curator, she has put together more than 500 exhibitions.  She is a popular children's and youth author, many of her poems have found their place in school textbooks and children's magazines (Ciciban, Kekec, Otroci, Otrok in družina, Trobentica), and have also been translated into foreign languages. As the author of numerous books on art history and art criticism, she has also poured her knowledge into the fairy-tale-theoretical collection Frida and the Dragon Artur Gaj (Frida in zmaj Artur Gaj).

She is a member of the Slovenian Art Critics Association, the Slovenian Writers Association, the Slovenian section of PEN and one of the founders of Mira, the PEN Women's Committee. She lives and works in Ljubljana.

Tevž Tavčar

He installed his first water garden more than 30 years ago. All his other gardens are naturally surrounded by water, as they are located by a stream or the sea. He believes that a garden without a water motif is like a good lunch without a wine accompaniment. Moreover, he is a project designer, gardener and mason at the same time. Tevž has learnt it all on his own, with the help of nature, which has shown him time and again that he is working in the right direction. He holds a bachelor’s degree in animal husbandry engineering.

Tina Dobrajc

Tina Dobrajc is a Batchelor of Fine Arts, born in 1984 in Kranj. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2007 and then completed her Master's degree in painting at the same academy in 2011 under the mentorship of Professor Herman Gvardjančič. Her artistic creativity was noticed and recognised early in her career; in 2011 she was nominated for the ESSL Art Award, in 2015 she received the Rihard Jakopič Award for Young Artists, and a year later she received the Hinko Smekar Plaque for her illustrations. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.