SVETLANA MAKAROVIC

Svetlana Makaroviç is a Slovenian writer of prose, poetry, children’s books and picture books. She is also an actress, illustrator and “chanteuse”. She has been called “the first lady of Slovenian poetry”.

She was born 1st January 1939. She is 79 years old.

She has always been critical and independent and she quit the Slovenian Writer’s Association, because she disagreed with the standards for allocation of membership: She believed that the main criterion should be quality, non quantity. She declined her placement in the anthology of Slovenian female writers, because the criterion was gender and not quality.

She opposes communism saying that art is for all people. She is anti-Catholic.

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