Silvija Žnidar (1987) is a literary critic who was born in Maribor. She received her bachelor’s degree from Art History as well as Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She also finished her Master’s degree in Comparative Literature and is currently a PhD student in a literary theory programme, focussing on German romanticism and postmodernism. She publishes literary criticism, reports, and commentaries in the magazine and webpage of Lud Literatura and also moderates cultural events.