Branko Gradišnik is a Slovene writer

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 and translator. He writes short stories and is a well known columnist

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 writing for in the newspaper Delo

Delo

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 and other Slovene publications. In 2004 he was also one of the candidates for Mayor of Ljubljana

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Branko Gradišnik was born in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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 in 1951 and is the son of author and translator Janez Gradišnik

Janez Gradišnik

Janez Gradišnik , was a Slovenian author and translator.-Biography:He was born in Stražišče near Prevalje, present-day Slovenia, in what was then the Duchy of Carinthia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied at the University of Ljubljana. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he belonged to the...

. He graduated in Art history

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 and Sociology

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 from the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 and holds a Master's degree

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 in creative writing

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 from Lancaster University

Lancaster University

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. In 1982 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award

Prešeren Award

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 for his collection of predominantly science fiction

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 short stories titled Zemlja, zemlja, zemlja (Earth, Erath, Earth). He is also known for his translation of The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

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 trilogy into Slovene.

Selected works

• Čas (Time), short stories, (1977)
• Mavrična krila" (Rainbow Wings), short science fiction stories in anthology with other authors (1978)
• Kerubini (Cherubins), satirical novel co-written with Emil Filipčič
  Emil Filipčič
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   under the single pseudonym
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  Jožef Paganel
• Zemlja zemlja zemlja (Earth Earth Earth), short stories (1981)
• Leta (The Years), novel, (1984)
• Mistifikcije (Mystifications), short stories, (1987)
• Nekdo drug (Someone Else), crime novel, (1990)
• Nekaj drugega (Something Else), (1990)
• Igre: volčje in ovčje (Games: for Wolves and Sheep), (1993)
• Roka, voda, kamen (Hand, Water, Stone) (2007)