Lela B. Njatin


Lela B. Njatin is a Slovene writer and visual artist. She is best known for her novel Nestrpnost and her conceptual art installations.
Njatin was born in Ljubljana in 1963. She studied Comparative literature and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. She worked as an editor and a public relations consultant. She mostly writes short stories that have been published in several anthologies at home and abroad. Her 1988 novel Nestrpnost won her critical acclaim and has been reprinted and also translated into Croatian. Her fairy tale Velikanovo srce was nominated for the Večernica Award and has also been translated into Czech and Croatian. Her work has also been was published in several anthologies abroad, including: Schnellstrasse, Fernlicht/Hitra cesta, ostra luč, Kovič, Grafenauer, Šalamun, Jančar, B. Njatin ; The Day Tito Died, Jančar, Gradišnik, Virk, B. Njatin, Blatnik ; The Third Shore, Women's Fiction from East Central Europe, anthology of ten authors. Outstanding is her contribution to a monograph on Antony Gormley. In the field of visual arts she works as a conceptual artist and explores the relation between literature and art. She started by writing conceptual poetry in the 1970s. Mostly she creates mixed-media art installations, among them I didn’t want to know, but I have since come to know and Absence, Hommage à Igor Zabel.

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