Gabriela Babnik
Gabriela Babnik (1979) is a writer, literary critic and translator who lives between Ljubljana and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Her first novel, Cotton Skin (Koža iz bombaža), was published in 2007 and was awarded the Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair. Her second novel, In the Tall Grass (V visoki travi, 2009), was shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year, and her third novel, Dry Season (Sušna doba), was published in 2012 and received the European Union Prize for Literature, and her fourth novel, Intimately (Intimno, 2015), was once again shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for the best novel of the year. Babnik has also published a collection of short stories, while her latest novel, Three Deaths (Tri smrti) was published in May 2019.
- “Gabriela Babnik is one of the foremost European novelists writing today. She is breaking new ground in literary representations of global intercultural relationships, proving, in particular, that European whiteness need not relate itself to African postcolonial identities and locations on neo-imperial terms.”
