Ivan Dobnik - Vilenica

Vesna Lemaić se je rodila leta 1981
v Ljubljani. Pred dvema letoma je
ustanovila bralni krožek Anonymous
Readers, v prostem času dela v klubu v
Avtonomni kulturni coni Metelkova,
vsako leto pa vodi tudi delavnico
kreativnega »trash« pisanja za mlade.
Kot pisateljica je na svoje literarno
ustvarjanje širše opozorila s prvencem
Popularne zgodbe (2008), kratkoprozno
zbirko, za kate ro je prejela tri
nagrade: nagrado zlata ptica (2009),
nagrado Slovenskega knjižnega sejma
za najboljši prvenec (2009) in nagrado
fabula (2010). Prejela je tudi
nagrado Radia Slovenije (2009) za
kratko zgodbo Nič ni, nič ni in nagrado
»Lapis Histriae« (2009) za kratko
zgodbo Odlagališče. Med njena dela
spadata tudi roman z enakim naslovom,
kot ga ima nagrajena kratka
zgodba, Odlagališče (2010), in radijska
igra Podpotnik (2010), ki jo je
napisala za Radio Slovenija.
Vesna Lemaić was born in 1981 in
Ljubljana, Slovenia . Two years ago, she
founded the Anonymous Readers reading
circle . She devotes her free time to the
Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural
Zone Club, and hosts a youth workshop
on creative “trash” writing each year . As
an author, she called attention to her
literary efforts in the broad sense with
her book Popularne zgodbe (Popular
Stories, 2008), a collection of short stories
for which she received three awards:
the Golden Bird Award (2009), the
Slovenian Book Fair Award for best
debut book (2009), and the Fabula
Award (2010) . She was also honoured
with the Radio Slovenia Award (2009)
for the short story Nič ni, nič ni (It’s
Nothing, It’s Nothing), and the Lapis
Histriae Award (2009) for the short
story Odlagališče (Dumping Ground) .
Her works also include the novel of the
same title as her award-winning short
story – Odlagališče (Dumping Ground,
2010), and the audio play Podpotnik
(Sub-Passenger, 2010), which she had
written for Radio Slovenia .