Portrait - Goran Vojnović

Goran
Vojnović

Goran Vojnović’s bestselling debut novel Southern Scum Go Home! has been reprinted five times and translated into numerous languages. A collection of his columns from a Slovene daily newspaper and weekly magazine have been published as a book-When Jimmy Choo meets Fidel Castro which was translated into Serbian.. The Fig Tree won the Župančič Award, the highest recognition of the City of Ljubljana for outstanding creation in the field of art and culture, 2017 and Shortlisted for the Njegoš Award 2017.

Goran Vojnović’s bestselling debut novel Southern Scum Go Home! has been reprinted five times and translated into numerous languages. A collection of his columns from a Slovene daily newspaper and weekly magazine have been published as a book-When Jimmy Choo meets Fidel Castro which was translated into Serbian.. The Fig Tree won the Župančič Award, the highest recognition of the City of Ljubljana for outstanding creation in the field of art and culture, 2017 and Shortlisted for the Njegoš Award 2017.

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