Evald Flisar is a Slovene writer

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, poet

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, playwright

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, editor

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 and translator. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association

Slovene Writers' Association

The Slovene Writers' Association is a non-profit association of Slovene writers based in Ljubljana.The Association was founded on 21 April 1872 in Ljubljana at the initiative of Davorin Trstenjak who also became its first president. It operated under various names over the years and re-adopted its...

 for three consecutive terms between 1995 and 2002 and is editor-in-chief of the literary and cultural magazine Sodobnost

Sodobnost

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Biography

Flisar was born in 1945 in Gerlinci

Gerlinci

Gerlinci is a village in the Cankova Municipality in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia.There is a small chapel in the settlement. It was built in 1861 and is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua. It belongs to the Pertoča Parish....

 in the Prekmurje

Prekmurje

Prekmurje is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region settled by Slovenes and lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley in the most western part of Hungary...

 region of eastern Slovenia

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. He attended secondary school in Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

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 and studied comparative literature

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 at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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, English

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 and English literature

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 at Chiswick Polytechnic in London

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 and for a while in Australia

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. Many of his books are travelogues

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 and he is also an acclaimed playwright. He received the Prešeren Foundation Award

Prešeren Award

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  in 1993 for his travelogue Popotnik v kraljestvu senc and his plays Kaj pa Leonardo? and Jutri bo lepše.

Prose

• Mrgolenje prahu (1968, novel)
• Umiranje v ogledalu (1969, novel)
• Tisoč in ena pot (1979, travelogue)
• Južno od severa (1981, travelogue)
• Lov na lovca (1984, short stories)
• Čarovnikov vajenec (1986, novel)
• Noro življenje (1989, travelogue)
• Popotnik v kraljestvu senc (1992, travelogue)
• Potovanje predaleč (1998, novel)
• Zgodbe s poti (2000, short stories)
• Velika žival samote (2001, novel)
• Ljubezni tri in ena smrt
  Ljubezni tri in ena smrt
  Ljubezni tri in ena smrt is a novel by Slovenian author Evald Flisar. It was first published in 2002....
  
  (2002, novel)
• Čaj s kraljico
  Čaj s kraljico
  Čaj s kraljico is a novel by Slovenian author Evald Flisar. It was first published in 2004....
  
  (2004, novel)
• Mogoče nikoli (2007, novel)
• Opazovalec (2009, novel)

Plays

• Sodniška zgradba (1969, radio play)
• Vojaki ob koncu vojne (1970, radio play)
• Kostanjeva krona (1970)
• Ukradena hiša (1972, radio play)
• Nimfa umre (1989)
• Jutri bo lepše (1992)
• Kaj pa Leonardo? (1992)
• Naglavisvet (1993, radio play)
• Tristan in Izolda: igra o ljubezni in smrti (1994)
• Stric iz Amerike (1994)
• Iztrohnjeno srce (1995)
• Temna stran svetlobe (1995, radio play)
• Angleško poletje (1997, radio play)
• Sončne pege (1998)
• Padamo, padamo (1998)
• Poslednja nedolžnost (1999)
• Enajsti planet (2000)
• Nora Nora (2004)
• Akvarij (2007)

Children's literature

• Pikpokec postane svetovni prvak (2007)
• Alica v nori deželi (2008)