Irena Svetek

Irena Svetek (1975) holds a doctorate from the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her first novel Close Up (Od blizu) won her the 2004 Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair and a nomination for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year. She is also author of the novels Seventh Wave (Sedmi val, 2011) and Go to Sleep, My Child, Go to Sleep (Zaspi, mala moja, zaspi, 2014). In recent years she has been mostly scriptwriting and has written the screenplays for numerous films, TV series and programmes. In 2021 she published the first in her series of psychological crime novels Little Red Riding Hood (Rdeča kapica). The novel became a best-seller and is being made into a TV series. White Wolf (Beli volk), the second novel in the series, will also be adapted for television. The last part in the trilogy, Black Prince (Črni princ), was published in 2023.

Awards and nominations

Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair 2004
Shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2005

Books by Irena Svetek

Little Red Riding Hood