Jokin Mitxelena

Jokin Mitxelena was born in San Sebastian in the Basque Country. He studied painting in Bilbao and worked as a teacher for ten years. During his teaching career he began illustrating. He has lived and worked in Germany since 1995 and has collaborated with major Spanish and other international publishers, not only as an illustrator, but also as an author. He has received several awards for his work. Slovenian readers can get to know him as the illustrator of The Girl who Delivered the Bread, the picture book written by Peter Svetina.

Jure Preglau

Jure Preglau (1982) is employed as the head of the Scientific Publishing of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. He has been working with Zala Publishing as a technical editor for a number of years. 

Gobbling Dragon is Juret's first published book.

Karmen Jenič

Karmen is a writer and an el- ementary school teacher of Slovene. in her writing she draws on her experience and daily contacts with young people.

Katarina Marinčič

Katarina Marinčič (1968) is a writer, literary historian and translator. She is the author of novels Tereza, Rose Garden (Rožni vrt), Disguised Harmony (Prikrita harmonija – winner of the 2002 Kresnik Award for best Slovenian novel

of the year) and According to Them (Po njihovih besedah – winner of the 2015 Kritiško Sito Award for best book of the year) and a collection of

short stories About Three (O treh – winner of the 2007 Fabula Award for the best short story collection). The novel Disguised Harmony has been published in German, the novel According to Them in Romanian, and the collection of stories About Three in Macedonian and French. She has also contributed numerous forewords to Slovene publications of French classics and

has translated from the French into Slovene Paul Veyne’s work When Our World Became Christian: 312 - 394 and Marcel Proust’s collection of early work Pleasures and Days.

Katarina Šeme

Katarina Šeme (1993) is an illustrator and a 2D computer animation artist. Drawing cartoons combines both of these disciplines. She graduated from the Department of Visual Communications at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in  2017. She worked as a graphic designer in Slovenia and Cyprus, and a scholarship allowed her to study traditional art and culture in Indonesia for a year. After Indonesia she relocated to Brussels, where she continued to work as a graphic designer. She established her own company after returning to Slovenia in 2020, and she has been working in the disciplines of animation and art ever since.

Katerina Kalc

Katerina Kalc is a freelance illustrator and painter based on the Karst in a small village on the Italian-Slovenian border. 

She graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Ljubljana.

As illustrator she has been collaborating with the children's magazine Galeb since 2006 and some Italian and Slovenian publishers - mainly for children’s books.

Currently she works as a freelance painter, illustrator and teacher (creative workshops in schools or cultural centers and drawing courses for adults, tutor for entrance exams to the academy or art schools).

Selection of publications:

- Pogoltni zmaj, Zala Publishing House, 2022

- Naša dojenčica: pustolovščine male navihanke, Goriška Mohorjeva Družba, 2022

- Carlotta in Vrhovski Pust, Carnival 2020 Society

- Kamišibai and the picture book 4 letni časi ali Kako je jesenček iskal Zimo, 2019-20, KUD Troubadour and publishing house Bogataj

- "Sulle orme degli antenati" (In the footsteps of the ancestors), Editoriale scienza, 2016

- Srečne pravljice, Brooklyn‚ Ptujski Kurent in njegova Magdalenca, Skrivnostno divje jezero, Kranjaska čebelica , Triglavski velikan, Alba 2000 publishing house (2014)

- Illustrations for the children's magazine Galeb

Katja Perat

Katja Perat (1988) is one of the leading poetic voices of her gen- eration. Her first poetry collection The Best Have Fallen (Najboljši so padli) came out in 2011 and re- ceived both the Best Debut Award and the Kritiško sito Award, an award bestowed by the Slovenian Literary Critics’ Association for best book of the year. Her second book of poetry Value-Added Tax (Davek na dodano vrednost, 2014) was also extremely well received. Currently she is a doctoral student of compar- ative literature at the Washington University in St. Louis, USA. The Masochist (Mazohistka), published in 2018, is her first novel.

Klarisa Jovanović

Klarisa Jovanović is professor of French and a comparative literature graduate. She translates mainly from Greek, but also from Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Italian and French. She has published three books of poetry. In 2007, she published the poem Zgiban prek Mure, which was nominated for the best debut next year. Her poem Izgnana was nominated for Veronikina nagrada, the literary award given to the year’s best collection of poems. She is also an interpreter of poems set to music and folk songs.

Kristina Hočevar

Kristina Hočevar (1977) is the author of sev- en poetry collections. She received the Golden Bird Award for Repki (Tiny Tails), and the Jenko Award for her collection Na zobeh aluminij, na ustnicah kreda (Aluminium on the Teeth, Chalk in the Lips). The latter was fully translated into Ger- man (Auf den Zähnen Aluminum, auf den Lippen Kreide, DSP, 2017), and was also published as an audio book. Her poems have been included in various anthologies, translated into 15 languages, and also presented through the Versopolis poet-

ry platform. She participates in various Slovenian and international art festivals. Simultaneously with the publication of her latest book, trilingual poetry collec- tion Rujenje/Half of a C / C 的一半, Hočevar authored an exhibition at the Škuc Gallery. Her poetry has been described as “one of those literary voices that are too special, too individual to fit into any poetry school or movement.” (T. Kozin, ARS).

Kristina Hočevar has a BA in Slovenian Language and Literature and in Gener- al Linguistics. She teaches Slovene, proofreads and occasionally translates literature from English.

Kristina Krhin

Kristina graduated in Painting from the academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2000. in 2002, she was granted the status of independent cultural worker. making a good use of her acquired academic skills, she has illustrated a number of picture books, both for domestic

and foreign publishers. She has also participated in the production of various children's magazines and textbooks.