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Breda Smolnikar

ブレダ・スモルニカル

Breda Smolnikar

Pen Names: GospaUsed for adult fiction in the 1980s

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1941-01-19 (Herceg Novi)
Nationality
Slovenian
Languages
Slovenian
Residence History
Herceg Novi (Montenegro) → Slovenia

Career

Occupations
Writer, Textile industry worker
Active Years
1963-2010

Education

Textile engineering
Country: Slovenia
Studied textile engineering

Awards

Levstik Award
1963
Work: Children, Life Goes On
Organization: Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Children, Life Goes On

1963 Children's literature

A story about children's lives

LifeGrowth

When the Birches Up There Are Greening

1998 Novel

A novel that led to a lawsuit and sales ban until 2005

NatureConflict

Bibliography

  • Children, Life Goes On (1963)
  • The Small Mosaic of Names (1967)
  • Belly Buttons (1973)
  • The Balad of Wild Milk (1980)
  • When Stob Was Dying (1982)
  • Dead Stob (1982)
  • Stob's Balads (1985)
  • When the Birches Up There Are Greening (1998)
  • Strob's Eulogies (2002)
  • The Loose Knot (2003)
  • When the Birches Up There Are Not Greening (2004)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Poetic styleEveryday descriptions
Recurring Motifs
NatureChildrenDeath

Legacy

Slovene writer known for children's and adult literature, Levstik Award winner

Trivia

  • Her 1998 book led to a lawsuit and sales ban until 2005