Ana Schnabl is a writer, journalist and literary critic. A doctoral student of philosophy, her research focuses on the female autobiography and confession and women in psychoanalysis. She has written for the Slovenian literary journal Literatura and the online literary magazine AirBeletrina, has collaborated with the daily Dnevnik and is the first editor of the Versopolis Review. Her book debut, the short story collection Disentangling (Razvezani), was published in 2017 and among numerous other laurels received the Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair. The Masterpiece is her first novel.
Ana Schnabl is a writer, journalist and literary critic. A doctoral student of philosophy, her research focuses on the female autobiography and confession and women in psychoanalysis. She has written for the Slovenian literary journal Literatura and the online literary magazine AirBeletrina, has collaborated with the daily Dnevnik and is the first editor of the Versopolis Review. Her book debut, the short story collection Disentangling (Razvezani), was published in 2017 and among numerous other laurels received the Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair. The Masterpiece is her first novel.
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