Miha Mazzini
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Miha Mazzini
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June 3, 1961 Jesenice, Slovenia, Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Novelist, Screenwriter, Film director, Columnist |
| Nationality | Slovenian |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana |
| Period | 1981 to present |
| Genre | Novel, Short story, Film |
| Notable works | Guarding Hanna, The Cartier Project, King of the Rattling Spirits |
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Miha Mazzini (born 3 June 1961 in Jesenice, Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director with thirty published books, translated in ten 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 a Voting member of the European Film Academy.
In his childhood, he was living with his mother and grandmother in Titoist Yugoslavia, which he later described in 2002 novel King of the Rattling Spirits, based on his 2001 Sweet Dreams film script.
Mazzini introduced in the post-1990 Slovene literature a tough protagonist, characteristic of Noir fiction, in his novel Guarding Hanna.
His Cartier Project was the all-time best-selling novel in Yugoslavia. It won the 1987 Best Novel of the Year award from both the pro-government and opposition newspapers.
Later his work was selected for many international anthologies, recently his short story Mother was included in Contemporary European Fiction anthology.
In 2012, one of his stories received the Pushcart Prize.
Mazzini won the 2016 Kresnik Award for his novel Otroštvo (Childhood).
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