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Du?an ?arotar (born 16 April 1968) is a Slovenian writer, essayist, literary critic and editor.
?arotar was born in the town of Murska Sobota in northeastern Slovenia. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He has published several essays and columns in renowned Slovenian journals, such as Mladina, Nova revija, and Sodobnost. His best known novel is "Billiards at the Hotel Dobray" (Bilijard v Dobrayu), an account of the persecution of Jews in Murska Sobota at the end of the Second World War from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor returning from a concentration camp. The novel, first published in Slovene in 2007, is based on the story of ?arotar's own grandfather.
Video Du?an ?arotar
Bibliography
- Prose
- Potapljanje na dah, The Island of the Dead, novel (1999)
- Mrtvi kot, The Blind Spot, short stories (2000)
- No?itev z zajtrkom, Bed and Breakfast, novel (2003)
- Biljard v Dobrayu, Billiards at the Hotel Dobray, novel (2007)
- Nostalgija, Nostalgia, short stories (2010)
- Ostani z mano, du?a moja - Ostani z menov, dü?a moja, Stay With Me My Soul, novel (2011)
- Prose Translated into English
- Panorama, Istros Books, London, 2016.
- Poetry
- Ob?utek za veter, poems (co-author Feri Lain??ek) (2004)
- Krajina v molu, poems (2006)
- Hi?a mojega sina, poems (2008)
Maps Du?an ?arotar
References
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