Tone Partljič

Novelist, screenplay writer and playwright, he also worked as a dramaturg and artistic director. He received numerous awards for his creative work, not least the Slavko Grum Award for Best Play, Levstik Award, Glazer Award and Prešeren Award. The jury’s justification for the latter states: “In his comedies, Tone Partljič expresses his response to current events in politics and society in general (party disputes, political questions, transition issues, national identity, the changed roles of men and women in society and within a family etc.) whilst he also builds his comic effects on elements of universal, timeless comedy (romantic plots, eroticism, stereotypes and prejudice, dissonance of wishes and reality, general human errors etc.). This is why many of his comedies from the past are still very much alive today.”

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