Dušan Šarotar

Dušan Šarotar (born 16 April 1968) is a Slovenian writer, essayist, literary critic and editor.[1]

Dušan Šarotar
Born(1968-04-16)16 April 1968
Murska Sobota, Slovenia
OccupationWriter, poet
Notable worksBilliards at the Hotel Dobray

Šarotar was born in the town of Murska Sobota in northeastern Slovenia. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He has published several essays and columns in renowned Slovenian journals, such as Mladina, Nova revija, and Sodobnost.[2] His best known novel is Billiards at the Hotel Dobray (Bilijard v Dobrayu), an account of the persecution of Jews in Murska Sobota at the end of the Second World War from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor returning from a concentration camp. The novel, first published in Slovene in 2007, is based on the story of Šarotar's own grandfather.

Bibliography
Prose[3]
  • Potapljanje na dah, The Island of the Dead, novel (1999)
  • Mrtvi kot, The Blind Spot, short stories (2000)
  • Nočitev z zajtrkom, Bed and Breakfast, novel (2003)
  • Biljard v Dobrayu, Billiards at the Hotel Dobray, novel (2007)
  • Nostalgija, Nostalgia, short stories (2010)[4]
  • Ostani z mano, duša moja – Ostani z menov, düša moja, Stay With Me My Soul, novel (2011)[5]
  • Panorama, novel (2014)
Prose Translated into English
Prose Translated into Spanish
Poetry
  • Občutek za veter, poems (co-author Feri Lainšček) (2004)[6]
  • Krajina v molu, poems (2006)
  • Hiša mojega sina, poems (2008)
gollark: I do have an archive of all my pastes there, but if they do kill it completely I'll have to fix a lot of stuff.
gollark: Pastebin's VERY harsh rate limiting means PotatOS Tau actually has to fall back to my server for updates half the time.
gollark: It's also case-sensitive now, breaking SO many things.
gollark: I started up a git server and moved potatOS to it because of the bad changes they badly made.
gollark: Maybe if ender modems were large multiblocks of some sort, or if they could only communicate with stuff at the same X/Y/Z coord across dimensions, or if they could only work with portals nearby or something, we would have CC networking which actually does routing.

References
  1. "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  2. Press, Beletrina Publishing. "Beletrina - beletrina.si". www.studentskazalozba.si.
  3. "Read Central". www.readcentral.org.
  4. "COBISS/OPAC - sl". cobiss4.izum.si.
  5. "COBISS/OPAC". cobiss.izum.si.
  6. "Versoteque". www.versoteque.com.


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