Dušan Šarotar is a Slovenia

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, essayist, literary critic and editor

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Šarotar was born in the town of Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota is a city in northeastern Slovenia. It is located in the eponymous municipality near the Mura River in the region of Prekmurje and is the regional capital.-Name:...

 in northeastern Slovenia. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Ljubljana

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. He has published several essays and columns in renowned Slovenian journals, such as Mladina

Mladina

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, Nova revija

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, and Sodobnost

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. His best known novel is "Billiards at the Hotel Dobray" (Bilijard v Dobrayu), an account of the persecution of Jews in Murska Sobota at the end of the Second World War from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor returning from a concentration camp. The novel, first published in Slovene in 2007, is based on the story of Šarotar's own grandfather.