Evald Flisar

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Novelist, translator, poet and playwright. He is the editor of Slovenian literary magazine Sodobnost and former chair of Slovene Writers’ Association and Slovene PEN Centre. He is one of the most translated Slovenian authors and winner of numerous awards.

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Shakuntala (2012)

"How can love replace wisdom?"

Take Me in Your Hands (2011)

Take Me in Your Arms is a drama about the decline of reading culture, about life and learning, about love and sacrifice, about hope, despair and death.

Alice in Crazyland (2010)

“I dreamed how beautiful it is when you have no choice.”

Antigone Now (2010)

“Every now and then someone needs to remind us that there are things in life that are not for sale.”

Aquarium (2007)

“I hate everything to do with the world and what’s become of it when I wasn’t paying attention. I am bored by everything about this world. I am bored to death by small joys and small sorrows of my relatives. Most of all I am bored by any sort of conversation, even this one, with you, because it robs my thoughts of truth, seriousness and meaning.”

Nora Nora (2003)

How to prolong love or the play that reveals us when we love, when we hate, when we surrender, and when we are outplayed ...

The Eleventh Planet (1999)

Three vagrants with biblical names Peter, Paul and Magdalena are fascinated by a science fiction book titled The Eleventh Planet.

Sunspots (1998)

On Christmas Day, elderly couple Matjaž and Vera are waiting for the whole family to gather so they can enjoy a festive dinner together. They don’t notice that Santa Claus has approached the house, sneaked in through the window, and secretly poured the contents of his sack into the wine on the table.

Final Innocence (1996)

Bosnia during the war. An American journalist, Mary, and Major John are trapped in a mountain hunting lodge during a snowstorm.

Uncle from America (1994)

“I was afraid that I wasn’t enough – that I would look like an empty bag. I had to fill myself up with old newspapers, with imaginary events. With achievements that God had intended for others, even though I had asked him nicely to remember me sometimes too.”

Tomorrow (1992)

"Our only direction is where the wind blows."

What about Leonardo? (1992)

“The current position of man is such that the center for intuition and the center for feeling have slipped from consciousness into the subconscious, so that man connects with the environment only through the center for thinking, and this center is designated by the word ‘I’.”

The Nymph Dies (1989)

They performed Anna Karenina and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. They performed Madame Bovary and Mrs. Chatterley’s Pet. Isolde began to visit the library. Her visits were so frequent that the librarian asked her if she had perhaps taken up the study of comparative literature! They performed at least a hundred scenes from world classics; at first faithfully, then less and less as the author had imagined them, and more and more as the bright Isolde had imagined them.

The Chestnut Crown (1970)

“I’ll tell you a dirty little song. Let’s go to the forest, says the first devil. What will we do there, says the second devil. To look for my mother, says the first devil. What will we do with her, says the second devil. Let’s tease her to death! says the first devil.”

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