Fabula is a literary award in Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

 awarded each year for the best collection of short prose in Slovene published in the previous two years. It has been bestowed since 2006 by the national newspaper house Dnevnik at the Fabula World Literatures festival that takes place every spring in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

. The winner also receives a financial award.

Year	Author	Novel	Title in English	Publisher	Year of publication
2006	Nejc Gazvoda Nejc Gazvoda Nejc Gazvoda is a Slovene writer, screenwriter and director. He has published a number of novels and collections of short stories and is also has also written the scripts for two successful TV dramas and has recently written and directed his first feature film Izlet .Gazvoda was born in Novo...	Vevericam nič ne uide	Nothing Escapes the Squirrels	Goga	2004
2007	Katarina Marinčič Katarina Marinčič Katarina Marinčič is a Slovene writer and literary historian. She has a PhD in French literature and teaches and is a member of the Senate at the Arts Faculty at the University of Ljubljana....	O treh	About the Three	Mladinska Knjiga	2005
2008	Maruša Krese Maruša Krese Maruša Krese is a Slovene poet, writer and journalist. She lives and works in Berlin. In 1997 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her humanitarian efforts in the Bosnian War....	Vsi moji božiči	All My Christmases	Mladinska Knjiga	2006
2009	Peter Rezman Peter Rezman Peter Rezman is a Slovene poet, writer and playwright. He lives and works in Plešivec near Velenje in northern Slovenia....	Skok iz kože	Leaping from Skin	Litera	2008
2010	Vesna Lemaić Vesna Lemaić Vesna Lemaić is a Slovene writer. Her debut publication was a collection of short stories Popularne zgodbe . Since she has also published a novel called Odlagališce and written a radio play for Radio Slovenija. She founded a project called Anonymous Readers and runs creative writing workshops for...	Popularne zgodbe	Popular Stories	Cankarjeva Založba	2008
2011	Lado Kralj Lado Kralj Lado Kralj is a Slovene writer, theatre critic and literary historian. From 1987 to 2005 he worked as a professor in comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and has published and contributed to numerous books on literature and theatre.Kralj was born in Slovenj Gradec in northern...	Kosec koso brusi	The Reaper Sharpening his Scythe	Beletrina	2010

External links

• Fabula World Literatures festival site