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• PoetryThe Baptism on the SavicaKrst pri SaviciFrance Prešeren · 1836Bohinj, at the end of the eighth century, when the ancestors of the Slovenes are converted to Christianity by force.Literature
• EssayMravljaFran Erjavec · 1857not translated into EnglishAn anthill, from the awakening of spring to the war between two neighbouring colonies, observed by a naturalist who narrates.Literature
• NarrativeMartin KrpanFran Levstik · 1858Inner Carniola and the court of Vienna, in a time when a salt smuggler can answer the emperor without detour.Literature
• NovelThe Tenth BrotherDeseti bratJosip Jurčič · 1866The manors and inns of Lower Carniola, where a poor tutor loves his master's daughter.Literature
• NarrativeZlatorogAnonymous · 1868not translated into EnglishThe high valleys of the Julian Alps, where one man's greed threatens the domain of the mountain fairies.Literature
• Short storiesAmong the MountainsMed goramiIvan Tavčar · 1888Mountain hamlets above Škofja Loka, seen by a peasant who distrusts everything that comes from the town.Literature
• PoetryPoezijeDragotin Kette · 1900not translated into EnglishLjubljana, Novo mesto and Trieste at the end of the nineteenth century, in the short life of a poor schoolboy who became a soldier.Literature
• NovelNa klancuIvan Cankar · 1902not translated into EnglishA poor district below a prosperous town, where a woman struggles alone with her children against poverty.Literature
• PoetryPesmi in romanceJosip Murn-Aleksandrov · 1903not translated into EnglishLjubljana at the turn of the century, and the neighbouring countryside, seen by a twenty-year-old poet who still publishes only in journals.Literature
• NovelUnder the Free SunPod svobodnim soncemFran Saleški Finžgar · 1906The Slavic lands of the Balkans and the court of Constantinople, in the sixth century, when free tribes confront Byzantium.Literature
• PoetryDumaOton Župančič · 1908not translated into EnglishThe Slovene countryside at the beginning of the twentieth century, emptied of its men by departures for America.Literature
• NovelNjeno življenjeZofka Kveder · 1914not translated into EnglishA woman chained to a gambling husband and a lost son: Zofka Kveder's great novel.Literature
• PoetryPesmiSrečko Kosovel · 1927not translated into EnglishThe Karst annexed by Italy after 1920, whose memory a student from Ljubljana keeps in his first poems.Literature
• NarrativeThe Odyssey of a Lonely WomanEinsame WeltreiseAlma Karlin · 1929A woman alone around the world in the wake of the Great War: Alma Karlin's great travel narrative.Literature
• DocumentarySkakalnica v PlaniciMetod Badjura · 1934The Julian Alps in the mid-thirties, when a couple of cameramen follow the country, camera in hand.Cinema
• NovelAlamutVladimir Bartol · 1938A fortress in the mountains of Persia in the eleventh century, where a sect leader manufactures his soldiers' faith.Literature
• Feature filmOn Our Own LandNa svoji zemljiFrance Štiglic · 1948A valley in the west of the country under the Italian and then German occupations, brought to the screen three years after the war.Cinema
• NarrativeFear and CourageStrah in pogumEdvard Kocbek · 1951Occupied Slovenia and its partisan hideouts, where everyone must choose between what duty commands and what humanity allows.Literature
• Feature filmKekecJože Gale · 1951The high pastures of the Julian Alps, in the early fifties, in a film made for children.Cinema
• NovelA Day in SpringPomladni danCiril Kosmač · 1953A valley in the Slovene Littoral in the aftermath of the Second World War, seen again by a man who has come home from abroad.Literature
• Feature filmJara gospodaBojan Stupica · 1953A provincial Slovene elite, between manor houses and the benches of the Austrian Parliament, before 1900.Cinema
• NovelMesto v zalivuBoris Pahor · 1955not translated into EnglishTrieste and the Karst in September 1943, when German occupation follows Fascism.Literature
• Feature filmThree Quarters of the SunTri četrtine soncaJože Babič · 1959A remote station in post-war Europe, where men and women who have come out of the camps wait to be able to go home.Cinema
• Feature filmPles v dežjuBoštjan Hladnik · 1961A city of the early sixties, between a café and a theatre, where two worn-out lovers are still searching for each other.Cinema
• Feature filmStronghold of ToughsGrajski bikiJože Pogačnik · 1967A post-war institution for lost children, in a Slovenia whose administration ignores those it locks away.Cinema
• NovelRealityResničnostLojze Kovačič · 1972Yugoslavia in the immediate post-war period, seen from a barracks in Macedonia by a conscript punished for a minor offence.Literature
• Feature filmBlossoms in AutumnCvetje v jeseniMatjaž Klopčič · 1973A farm in the Slovenian countryside, where a middle-aged man from the city discovers a love he no longer expected.Cinema
• NovelMinuet for GuitarMenuet za kitaroVitomil Zupan · 1975Occupied Slovenia in the forties and a Spanish seaside resort in the seventies, thirty years apart.Literature
• Feature filmIdealistIgor Pretnar · 1976The villages of Slovenia at the turn of the century, where the Church and the notables control the school and those who teach in it.Cinema
• TaleSapramiškaSvetlana Makarovič · 1976not translated into EnglishThe small world of the animals of the fields and woods, where a mouse must ask the others for help.Literature
• Feature filmHang on, Doggy!Sreča na vrviciJane Kavčič · 1977A modern housing estate in the Slovenian capital in the late seventies, where a child has to find a place for a very large dog.Cinema
• Feature filmReal PestsTo so gadiJože Bevc · 1977A Ljubljana flat at the end of the seventies, where a widower, five boys and a housekeeper fight over their place.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Raft of MedusaSplav MeduzeKarpo Aćimović Godina · 1980The countryside of the young Yugoslav kingdom, where an avant-garde from the capital looks for an audience for its revolution.Cinema
• Feature filmFarewell Until the Next WarNasvidenje v naslednji vojniŽivojin Pavlović · 1980Occupied Slovenia during the Second World War, seen again decades later from a beach in Spain.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Tenth BrotherDeseti bratVojko Duletič · 1982Two manor houses in the Slovene countryside around 1840, linked by a love and an old wrong.Cinema
• TheatreVeliki briljantni valčekDrago Jančar · 1985not translated into EnglishA closed institution that stands for the totalitarian state, in Yugoslavia in the mid-eighties.Literature
• Feature filmRams and MammothsOvni in mamutiFilip Robar Dorin · 1985Slovenia in the mid-eighties, a few years before the breakup of Yugoslavia, facing those it brings in from the South.Cinema
• Feature filmA Summer in a SeashellPoletje v školjkiTugo Štiglic · 1986The Slovenian Adriatic coast in the mid-eighties, the time of a child's last summer.Cinema
• NovelPastoralaVlado Žabot · 1994not translated into EnglishA group of the faithful that imposes its norms, facing a woman who wants to love without an intermediary.Literature
• NovelPtičja hišaBerta Bojetu · 1995not translated into EnglishA world dominated by men and by absolute power, where women endure through an intimate revolt.Literature

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