Janja Vidmar
Janja Vidmar (1962) graduated in Slovenian Language, Literature and Pedagogy from the University of Maribor. She is the author of over 50 books, many screenplays, plays, radio plays, as well as essays and articles. For her work she has received many national and international awards, among them: the Večernica Award (1998 and 2008) and the Desetnica Award (2006 and 2013); she has made the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour List (2010), while also winning the “Glazerjeva listina” (Glazer Award, 2007), the Medaglia d’oro (1999), and the “Zlata paličica” (Golden Stick, 2010). Twice she has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in 2013 and 2014.