Murisa
2010 Nominated

Murisa

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

On the eve of the second World War, Engineer Julian Spransky returns to his native Marska Sobota, occupied by the Yugoslav Army since 1919. His hometown is as ever, dominated by the powerful Mura river, which took the lives of his parents, one by one. He follows his father’s previous career in the Mura Waterworks, and in a futile effort to control the river, builds a magnificant bridge.

But events are happening over which Julian has no control, the approaching German army and his love for Zenaida, the wild child daughter of the insane Ivan Kozlov..

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Feri
Lainscek

Feri Lainšček, also known as Franc Lainšček, is a Slovenian writer, mainly of novels for both adults and youth. Many of his novels have been adapted into films, including the box-office hit Rooster’s Breakfast, based on his 1999 novel Petelinji zajtrk.

Feri Lainšček, also known as Franc Lainšček, is a Slovenian writer, mainly of novels for both adults and youth. Many of his novels have been adapted into films, including the box-office hit Rooster’s Breakfast, based on his 1999 novel Petelinji zajtrk.

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Erica
Johnson Debeljak

Erica Johnson Debeljak (born 1961, San Francisco, U.S.) is an American-Slovenian writer and translator, an American expatriate living in Slovenia.

From 1987 to 1993, she worked as an financial analyst at the French government-owned Banque Nationale de Paris and as lender to the major Wall Street firms.

After moving to Slovenia, she has worked as a translator and columnist for local newspaper Delo. Her essays and stories have also appeared in US News and World Report, Glimmer Train, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Epoch, Common Knowledge, and Eurozine. Barren Harvest: The Selected Poems of Dane Zajc, she translated in 2004, was published by White Pine Press.

She has published a number of books both in Slovenian and English, including two memoirs (Foreigner in the House of Natives and Forbidden Bread), a biography of Srečko Kosovel titled Srečko Kosovel: Pesnik in jaz, and a novel Anti-Fa cona.

Erica Johnson Debeljak (born 1961, San Francisco, U.S.) is an American-Slovenian writer and translator, an American expatriate living in Slovenia.

From 1987 to 1993, she worked as an financial analyst at the French government-owned Banque Nationale de Paris and as lender to the major Wall Street firms.

After moving to Slovenia, she has worked as a translator and columnist for local newspaper Delo. Her essays and stories have also appeared in US News and World Report, Glimmer Train, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Epoch, Common Knowledge, and Eurozine. Barren Harvest: The Selected Poems of Dane Zajc, she translated in 2004, was published by White Pine Press.

She has published a number of books both in Slovenian and English, including two memoirs (Foreigner in the House of Natives and Forbidden Bread), a biography of Srečko Kosovel titled Srečko Kosovel: Pesnik in jaz, and a novel Anti-Fa cona.

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

It is the only Slovene novel, published in English last year, but it is the best! It also won the Slovene literary award, Kresnik 2007.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Slovenia
Original Language
Slovenian
Author
Publisher
Slovene Writers’ Association
Translator
Erica Johnson Debeljak

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