Tina Vrščaj

Tina Vrščaj (1987, Ljubljana) si a Slovenian writer, editor, essayist and translator. She graduated in 2010 with a thesis on Philosophical Thought in the Novels by Iris Murdoch from the Departments of Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She writes novels, short stories, essays and children’s literature, and she used to work as a literary critic. She has translated into Slovenian the novel by J. M. Coetzee The Childhood of Jesus, The Economy of Desire by Daniel M. Bell Jr. and New and Selected Essays by Denise Levertov. Since 2022, she has been working as an editor at Beletrina Academic Press.

Prose:

• 2010 Zataknjena v pomladi, Študentska založba (Beletrina)
• 2012 Odradek, Cankarjeva založba
• 2018 Plašč, Cankarjeva založba
• 2022 Na Klancu, Cankarjeva založba

Children’s Books:

• 2017 Plah, plašen, najplašnejši Tapatapata, Mladinska knjiga
• 2021 Balabuga!, Mladinska knjiga

Book of Literary Reviews:

• 2020 Kritičarka na drevesu, Literatura

Translations:

• 2016 Frigidnost (Croatian), Artikulacije
• 2023 The House of Rising Books (an afterword in: Nataša Konc Lorenzutti Coffee by the Fragrant Jasmine,Litterae Slovenicae)
• 2023 Die Strafe (German), di horen, Zaitschrift fur Literatur, Kunst und Kritik
• 2023 Sodo dekle (Croatian, Serbian, English), Slavic Soundwalking

Awards and Nominations:

• 2019 Best Slovene Essay Award
• 2022 Modra ptica award
• 2023 Nomination for the Kresnik Prize – “Novel of the Year”
• 2024 EUPL Special mention