Vlado Žabot is a Slovene writer

Writer

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 and journalist

Journalist

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. 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 two terms between 2003 and 2007.

Žabot was born in Šafarsko

Šafarsko

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 in eastern Slovenia in 1958. He completed his studies in comparative literature

Comparative literature

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 at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 in 1986 and worked for the Delo

Delo

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 newspaper from 1987.

He won the Prešeren Foundation Award

Prešeren Award

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 in 1996 for his novel Pastorala and the Kresnik Award

Kresnik Award

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for his novel Volčje noči in 1997.

Selected works

• Bukovska mati, short stories (1986)
• Stari pil, novel, (1989)
• Pikec in Puhec iščeta Mihca, children's book, (1990)
• Pastorala, novel, (1994)
• Skrivnost močvirja Vilindol, children's book, (1994)
• Volčje noči, novel, (1996)
• Nimfa, novel, (1999)
• Sukub, novel, (2003)