Goran Vojnović

Goran Vojnović was born in 1980. He is a film and television director by education, and he also works as a writer, screenwriter, and columnist. So far, he has published four novels, which have been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for the stage. In 2013, he also directed a film based on his novel Čefurji raus! (Scum Go Home!). Together with Aleksandar Popovski, he is currently preparing a film adaptation of his second novel Jugoslavija, moja dežela (Yugoslavia, My Fatherland), which is expected to be his fifth feature film. In addition, Vojnović regularly writes articles for the Slovenian magazine Dnevnik, the Croatian weekly Novosti, and the Serbian online platform Velike priče. A selection of his journalistic texts and essays written over the past decade was published in the book Skupljač strahova (The Collector of Fears), recently released in Croatian translation. In recent years, Vojnović has mainly been working in theater as a writer, dramaturge, and director. He writes literature and journalistic works, film scripts, and plays mostly in Slovenian, but very often also in his mother tongue, which somewhat resembles Croatian—so, if one wishes, he can be seen as a Croatian writer as well. He sees himself, however, as a man who survives by telling stories—his own and those of others—both true and a little imagined. He lives and works in Ljubljana, and Pula is his second home.