Sebastijan Pregelj (born 29 July 1970) is a Slovenian writer.[1]
In the second half of the 1990s Sebastijan Pregelj (b.1970) called attention to himself with his collections of short stories. During the last ten years, he has undoubtedly proven his mastery of storytelling with his novels. Five of them earned him nominations for Best Novel of the Year Award (the Kresnik Award). A wide variety of readers is drawn to his novels because of their broad and rich historical background, intertwined with legends as well as present-day reality that manage to combine the magical with the spiritual and the mystical.
In 2020 Pregelj won The Cankar Prize, a new literature award for the most original piece of literature from the previous year - either fiction, play, essay or poetry, for »V Elvisovi Sobi«, a novel about a generation which was growing up while the former Yugoslavia was slowly disintegrating.
Sebastijan Pregelj has been featured in several anthologies in the Slovene, Slovak, German, Polish and English language. He is a member of the Slovenian Writers’ Association and Slovene PEN centre. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Bibliography
Novels
Beli konjiček (2023), White Horse
V Elvisovi sobi (2019), In Elvis's Room (2023), Sandorf Passage, translated by Rawley Grau
Vdih. Izdih. (2017), Breathe In. Breathe Out.
Kronika pozabljanja (2014), A Chronicle of Forgetting (2019), Litterae Slovenicae, translated by Rawley Grau
Pod srečno zvezdo (2013), Under a Lucky Star
Mož, ki je jahal tigra (2010), The Man Who Rode a Tiger[2]
Na terasi babilonskega stolpa (2008) On the Terrace of the Tower of Babel
Leta milosti (2004), Years of Mercy
Collections of short stories
Prebujanja (2011)
Svinje brez biserov (2002)
Cirilina roža (1999)
Burkači, skrunilci in krivoprisežniki (1996)
Children's literature
A Bear and a Piggie (2023 - ), 2 books
Tales from the Duchy of Carniola" (2022 - ), 3 books
Tales from the End of Stone Age" (2016 - 2021), 7 books
Duh Babujan" (2014-2016), 2 books
Other
Literarne poti Ljubljane (2010, literary guide, co-written with
Gašper Troha)
Ljubljana Literary Trail (2011, literary guide, co-written with Gašper Troha)[3]
Anthologies in which short stories by Pregelj have been published
It's Already the Morning of the Last Day, Thirty Slovenian writers. Thirty years of Slovenian independence., Sandorf Passage, 2023
Ljubljana Tales, a collection of Central European contemporary writing in
English (2012)
Noc w Lublanie, an anthology of Slovene short stories in
Polish (2009)
A Lazy Sunday Afternoon; Litterae Slovenicae vol. 112 (XLV/3)(2007)
Vně hranic : antologie současné slovinské krátké prózy, an anthology of contemporary Slovene short stories in
Czech (2002)
Die Zeit der kurzen Geschichte (2001)
Čas kratke zgodbe (1998)
Awards
Večernica Award (2021): The Return, Tales from the End of Stone Age, Book 6 (Vrnitev, 6. del Zgodb s konca kamene dobe)
The Cankar Prize (2020): In Elvis's Room, novel
Nominations and Recognitions
Večernica Award, nomination, 2023: Tales from the Duchy of Carniola, Book 1