Dušan Šarotar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dušan Šarotar

Slovenian writer

Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1968

Place of Birth: Murska Sobota, Slovenia

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, literary critic, essayist

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Dušan Šarotar (born 16 April 1968) is a Slovenian writer, essayist, literary critic and editor.Šarotar was born in the town of Murska Sobota in northeastern Slovenia.
He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.
He has published several essays and columns in renowned Slovenian journals, such as Mladina, Nova revija, and Sodobnost.
His best known novel is "Billiards at the Hotel Dobray" (Bilijard v Dobrayu), an account of the persecution of Jews in Murska Sobota at the end of the Second World War from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor returning from a concentration camp.
The novel, first published in Slovene in 2007, is based on the story of Šarotar's own grandfather.