Agata Tomažič

Agata Tomažič was born in 1977. She began her career as a journalist at the leading Slovenian daily newspaper Delo. The collection of short stories „Ono što ne možeš ispričati frizerki“ is her literary debut. For her travelogue collection „Zašto putujete u takve zemlje?“, she received the most important Slovenian award for travel writing – Krilata kornjača. She lives in Ljubljana, where she works as a PR associate at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). Her latest book, a chronicle of a manipulation, entitled „Ušabti“, was shortlisted for the most important Slovenian novel award – Kresnik. In her free time, she travels and writes, occasionally makes glass beads and sews. She continues to occasionaly collaborate with the media as a columnist.