I Saw Her That Night

Zusatztext "Friendship and betrayal, hope and guilt and the torment of remembering are Jancar's themes. His liquid balancing of illusion and reality sustains this kaleidoscopic, communal war novel, which moves relentlessly towards an obvious yet symbolic act of violence." - Irish Times Informationen zum Autor Drago Jancar was born in 1948 in Maribor, Slovenia, and is one of the best-known Slovenian writers at home and abroad. After studying law, he worked as a journalist, editor, and a freelance writer, and traveled to both the US and Germany. As President of the Slovenian P.E.N. Centre (1987 1991), Jancar was engaged in the rise of democracy in Slovenia and Yugoslavia and has been described as the seismologist of a chaotic history. I Saw Her That Night won the Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) in 2014 and the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year. In 2011 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature. His novels and short stories have been translated in several languages and his plays have been produced on many on American stages. He now lives in Ljubljana. Michael Biggins's translations of works by Slovene authors such as Drago Jancar, Tomaz Salamun, Vladimir Bartol and Lojze Kovacic have been published by Harcourt, Archipelago and Dalkey Archive, among others. In 2015 he was awarded the Lavrin Diploma of the Society of Slovene Literary Translators for distinguished contributions to the advancement of Slovene literature in English. He lives in Seattle. Klappentext Drago Jancar has received a number of literary awards, including: - International Ignazio Silone Prize (Premio Internazionale Ignazio Silone) in 2016 - Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) (I Saw Her That Night) in 2014 - European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature) in 2011 - Kresnik Award for best novel of the year three times: in 1999 (Zvenenje v glavi), 2001 (Katarina, pav in jezuit) and 2011 (I Saw Her That Night) - Herder Prize for literature in 2003 - European Short Story Award in 1994 - PreSeren Award, Slovenia's most prestigious arts award Zusammenfassung This novel is a love story in time of war, about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history, Slovenia before and during World War II. We follow her story from the perspective of five different characters....

Autorentext

Drago Jancar was born in 1948 in Maribor, Slovenia, and is one of the best-known Slovenian writers at home and abroad. After studying law, he worked as a journalist, editor, and a freelance writer, and traveled to both the US and Germany. As President of the Slovenian P.E.N. Centre (1987 1991), Jancar was engaged in the rise of democracy in Slovenia and Yugoslavia and has been described as the seismologist of a chaotic history. I Saw Her That Night won the Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) in 2014 and the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year. In 2011 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature. His novels and short stories have been translated in several languages and his plays have been produced on many on American stages. He now lives in Ljubljana.

Michael Biggins's translations of works by Slovene authors such as Drago Jancar, Tomaz Salamun, Vladimir Bartol and Lojze Kovacic have been published by Harcourt, Archipelago and Dalkey Archive, among others. In 2015 he was awarded the Lavrin Diploma of the Society of Slovene Literary Translators for distinguished contributions to the advancement of Slovene literature in English. He lives in Seattle.

Klappentext

Drago Jancar has received a number of literary awards, including:

• International Ignazio Silone Prize (Premio Internazionale Ignazio Silone) in 2016
• Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) (I Saw Her That Night) in 2014
• European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature) in 2011
• Kresnik Award for best novel of the year three times: in 1999 (Zvenenje v glavi), 2001 (Katarina, pav in jezuit) and 2011 (I Saw Her That Night)
• Herder Prize for literature in 2003
• European Short Story Award in 1994
• PreSeren Award, Slovenia's most prestigious arts award

Zusammenfassung
This novel is a love story in time of war, about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history, Slovenia before and during World War II. We follow her story from the perspective of five different characters.