Svetlana Slapšak

Svetlana Slapšak was born in Belgrade in 1948, where she completed classical secondary school and received her PhD from the Department of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy. During the SFRY, her passport was confiscated three times. She was president of the UKS Committee for Freedom of Expression from 1986 to 1989 and compiled and published more than 50 petitions. Since 1991, she has lived in Ljubljana, where she was a full professor of anthropology of ancient worlds, gender studies and Balkan studies. She is also a member and founder of the State Academy of Sciences for Sustainable Development of Slovenia, editor-in-chief of the journal ProFemina since 1994, and artistic director of the Serbian Cultural Centre „Danilo Kiš“ and the Institute for Balkan and Mediterranean Studies and Culture in Ljubljana. She was nominated, as part of the group One Thousand Women for Peace, for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She has written and edited more than 100 books and collections, around 500 studies, more than 3,000 essays, several novels, a libretto, travelogues, plays… She translates from Greek, Modern Greek, Latin, French, English and Slovenian. Her novels have been published in Slovenian, Macedonian and Catalan, while her studies and essays have been published in French, English, Romanian, Hebrew, German, Dutch, Hungarian and Italian. She has received numerous domestic and international awards, and this year she was presented with the Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana for lifetime achievement.