Panorama
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Deftly blending fiction, history and journalism, Dušan Šarotar takes the reader on a deeply reflective yet kaleidoscopic journey from northern to southern Europe. In a manner reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, he supplements his engrossing narrative with photographs, which help to blur the lines between fiction and journalism. The writer’s experience of landscape is bound up in a personal yet elusive search for self-discovery, as he and a diverse group of international fellow travellers relate in their distinctive and memorable voices their unique stories and common quest for somewhere they might call home.
Panorama is a title in the World Series by Peter Owen Publishers in association with Istros Books, bringing some of the best contemporary writing from Slovenia to English-speaking readers. The other titles in the Slovenian Autumn season are Three Loves, One Death by Evald Flisar and None Like Her by Jela Krečič.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Rawley
Grau
Rawley Grau has translated numerous works from Slovenian, including novels by Dušan Šarotar, Mojca Kumerdej, Gabriela Babnik, and Sebastijan Pregelj. Five of his translations, including Pregelj’s A Chronicle of Forgetting, have been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and his translations of Šarotar’s Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In 2021, he received the Lavrin Diploma for excellence in translation from the Association of Slovenian Literary Translators. Originally from Baltimore, he has lived in Ljubljana since the early 2000s.
Rawley Grau has translated numerous works from Slovenian, including novels by Dušan Šarotar, Mojca Kumerdej, Gabriela Babnik, and Sebastijan Pregelj. Five of his translations, including Pregelj’s A Chronicle of Forgetting, have been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and his translations of Šarotar’s Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In 2021, he received the Lavrin Diploma for excellence in translation from the Association of Slovenian Literary Translators. Originally from Baltimore, he has lived in Ljubljana since the early 2000s.