Dušan Šarotar

Dušan Šarotar (1968) is a writer, poet, translator, screenwriter and photographer. The central theme of his recent works is the fate of the Jewish community and the Holocaust in Prekmurje. His novels, Biljard v Dobrayu (Billiards at the Hotel Dobray), Panorama and Zvezdna karta (Star Chart) were all nominated for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year in Slovenia and translated into numerous languages. In 2023 he received the Župančič Award for his novel Zvezdna karta (Star Chart). The English editions of Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the novel Panorama was on the longlist for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award and received the Cesar-Lopez Cuadras Award in 2017. His poems and prose have been featured in Slovenian and foreign anthologies and translated into several languages. Šarotar is the author of numerous scripts for documentary and feature films and portraits of Slovenian artists. In 2012 Šarotar began developing and exhibiting his photographic series Duše (Souls). His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Murska Sobota Gallery. His last work, Nicomachus Reports, is a mix of poetry and prose, exploring memory, sadness, feeling and the human soul, approached with a poetic of slowness, characterised by descriptions of nature, cities and a specific atmosphere in which the author places his protagonists.