Breda Smolnikar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Breda Smolnikar

writer

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1941

Place of Birth: Herceg Novi, Herceg Novi Municipality, Montenegro

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Breda Smolnikar

  • Breda Smolnikar (born 19 January 1941), is a Slovene writer who has also published under the pseudonym Gospa.
  • She writes for adults and young readers.Smolnikar was born in Herceg Novi in 1941.
  • After the outbreak of the Second World War the family moved to Slovenia.
  • She studied textile engineering and worked in the textile industry for a number of years.
  • She started writing young and got her first book Otrocki življenje tece dalje (Children, Life Goes On) published in 1963 and won the Levstik Award for it that same year.
  • In the 1980s she wrote adult fiction under the pseudonym Gospa.
  • In 1998 she published her book Ko se tam gori olistajo breze (When the Birches Up There Are Greening) which brought a prolonged lawsuit upon the author and a prohibition on the sale of the book until the case was finally dismissed by the Slovenian Constitutional Court in 2005.

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