Gabriela Babnik

Gabriela Babnik (1979) is a writer, literary critic and translator, who lives between Ljubljana and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Her book reviews and articles on literary works appear regularly in the Slovenian periodical press. Her first novel, Cotton Skin (Koža iz bombaža, 2007), received the Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair. This was followed by the novels In the Tall Grass (V visoki travi, 2009), Dry Season (Sušna doba, 2012), Intimately (Intimno, 2015), Three Deaths (Tri smrti, 2019) and A Silence Full of the Wind (Tišina, polna vetra, 2022). In 2013, she was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature for Dry Season, which has been translated into more than ten languages, and that same year she also received the Stritar Prize for her literary criticism. In addition, she is a translator, mainly of works by African authors, and also writes radio plays.

Awards and nominations

Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair 2007
Nominated for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2010, 2013, 2016, 2020, 2022
European Union Prize for Literature 2013
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017

Books by Gabriela Babnik

A Silence Full of the Wind

Tišina, polna vetra

Gabriela Babnik