Maja Novak
Maja Novak is a Slovenian writer, translator and journalist.
Born in the industrial town of Jesenice, she grew up in Nova Gorica, a planned town on the Yugoslav-Italian border. She studied business law at the University of Ljubljana and worked as business secretary in Jordan before settling in Ljubljana, where she works as a journalist.
She started publishing short stories in the early 1990s. She has published four novels: Izza kongresa, ali umor v teritorialnih vodah, Cimre, Kafarnaum, and Mačja kuga, as well as the collection of short prose Zverinjad and three books for children.
Her novel Mačja kuga has been praised as a literary masterpiece.
She has translated authors from French, Italian, Serbian, and English.
She writes a regular op-ed column in the weekly left-wing current affairs magazine Mladina.
