Feri Lainšček is a 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...

n writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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Early life

He was born as Franc Lainšček in a Slovene Lutheran family in the village of Dolenci

Dolenci

Dolenci is a village in the Municipality of Šalovci in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia, on the border with Hungary.The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and belongs to the Murska Sobota Diocese. The original parts of the church date to 1331, but it was expanded in the...

, near Šalovci

Šalovci

Šalovci is a village and a municipality in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia.The writer Mihály Bakos was born in the village.-Demographics:Population by native language, 2002 census *...

, in north-eastern Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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. He studied journalism at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

The University of Ljubljana is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. With 64,000 enrolled graduate and postgraduate students, it is among the largest universities in Europe.-Beginnings:...

. In the 1980s, he worked as a speaker at the Radio Ljubljana. Since the 1990s, he has been living and working in the town of Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota is a city in northeastern Slovenia. It is located in the eponymous municipality near the Mura River in the region of Prekmurje and is the regional capital.-Name:...

 in his native 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.

Work

In 2007, he wrote the screenplay for the film Rooster's Breakfast

Rooster's Breakfast

Rooster's Breakfast is a Slovenian romantic comedy released in 2007. It is an adaptation of less known novel of the same name by Feri Lainšček...

, the most successful Slovenian film to date. The screenplay of the film is based on one of Lainšček novels.

In the parliamentary elections of 2008

Slovenian parliamentary election, 2008

Parliamentary elections for the 90 deputies to the National Assembly of Slovenia were held on 21 September 2008. 17 parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties...

, Lainšček ran for the Slovenian National Assembly for the social liberal party Zares

Zares

Zares – Social Liberals is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. Its president is Gregor Golobič, former Secretary General of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and former close advisor to the late Janez Drnovšek, who had previously abandoned active political involvement due to...

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Lainšček also created works in Prekmurian, professed a Prekmurian identity, and claimed that Prekmurian is a distinct language.