Miha Mazzini
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Miha Mazzini is a Slovenia
n writer
, screenwriter
and film director
with twenty-three published books, translated in eight languages. He possesses a PhD in anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis and has MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television at The University of Sheffield. He is Voting member of the European Film Academy
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His work was selected for many anthologies, recently his short story Mother was included in Contemporary European Fiction anthology.
—Village Voice
—Seattle Times
Miha Mazzini’s novel The Cartier Project was ex-Yugoslavia’s all-time best-selling novel and won the 1987 Best Novel of the Year award from both the state and opposition presses.
Slovenia
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n writer
Writer
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, screenwriter
Screenwriter
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and film director
Film director
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with twenty-three published books, translated in eight languages. He possesses a PhD in anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis and has MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television at The University of Sheffield. He is Voting member of the European Film Academy
European Film Academy
The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.- European Film Academy :...
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His work was selected for many anthologies, recently his short story Mother was included in Contemporary European Fiction anthology.
- “In ... Guarding Hanna, [Mazzini] has created a bestial protagonist ... a gargoyle of a man [who] struggles heroically with his own nature only to find that life has played him one horrific joke.”
—Village Voice
- “[Hanna’s] a wonderful creation: vulnerable, lonely, trying to keep her mood upbeat but not always succeeding. In fact, she’s just the thing to melt the Beast’s hostility—or drive him, with her chatter, to homicidal distraction....Throw in the narrator’s grim musings on his lot in life and his occasional urge to strangle Hanna, and you have a tonic mix of menace and comedy that keeps things hopping right up to the book’s twist ending.”
—Seattle Times
Miha Mazzini’s novel The Cartier Project was ex-Yugoslavia’s all-time best-selling novel and won the 1987 Best Novel of the Year award from both the state and opposition presses.
English bibliography
- Guarding HannaGuarding HannaGuarding Hanna is a novel by Miha Mazzini. First published in Slovenia in 2000 under the title of Telesni čuvaj . Second Slovenian edition was published in 2004.-Plot introduction:...
(2003, a novel) - The Cartier ProjectThe Cartier ProjectThe Cartier Project is a novel by Miha Mazzini. First published in Slovenia in 1987 under the title of Drobtinice...
(2004, a novel) - King of the Rattling SpiritsKing of the Rattling SpiritsKing of the Rattling Spirits is a novel by Miha Mazzini. It was first published in Slovenia in 2001, with a second edition in 2008 and third edition in 2011, under the title of 'Kralj ropotajočih duhov'. The author has explored other ways to tell the fictionalized autobiographic story before the...
(2005, a novel) - Clear Moments (2008, short story collection)
Films
- Cartier ProjectCartier ProjectCartier Project is a Slovenian TV film based upon the novel The Cartier Project by Miha Mazzini. The Slovenian title is Operacija Cartier.Produced by TV Slovenija, 90 minutes, 1991.Director: Miran ZupaničScreenplay: Miha Mazzini...
(1991, TV film, scriptwriter) - You're Free. Decide. (1999, short film, scriptwriter and director)
- Sweet Dreams (2001, feature film, scriptwriter)
- The Orphan with the magic voice (2003, short film, scriptwriter and director)
- A Very Simple Story (2008, short film, scriptwriter and director)