Veronika Simoniti

Born in 1967, Veronika Simoniti began her career as an author of children’s books, first publishing her work on Radio Slovenia. She published her first story collections, Zasukane Štorije (Twisted Stories) and Hudičev jezik (The Devil’s Tongue; two nominations) in 2005 and 2011. In 2014, her first novel, Kameno seme (The Stone Seed) was shortlisted for the Kresnik Prize 2015 for the best Slovenian novel. In 2019, Cankarjeva založba published her second novel Ivana pred morjem (Ivana in front of the sea), which was nominated for the Modra ptica Prize for best manuscript (2017), for the Kritiško Sito Prize of the Slovene Literary Critics’ Asssociation (2020) and won the Kresnik Prize 2020 for the best Slovenian novel. In the same year, a collection of short stories Fugato was published (Litera) and nominated in 2020 for the Novo Mesto Prize.
For her story “Sixty Percent,” she received the Women’s Council of Trieste Prize in 2013. Her work has appeared in numerous international anthologies and has been translated into sixteen languages.