Kresnik is a literary award in Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

 awarded each year for the best novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 in Slovene of the previous year. It has been bestowed since 1991 at summer solstice

Summer solstice

The summer solstice occurs exactly when the axial tilt of a planet's semi-axis in a given hemisphere is most inclined towards the star that it orbits. Earth's maximum axial tilt to our star, the Sun, during a solstice is 23° 26'. Though the summer solstice is an instant in time, the term is also...

 by the national newspaper house Delo

Delo

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. The awards ceremony is normally held on Rožnik hill above Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

 where the winner is invided to light a large bonfire

Bonfire

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. The winner also receives a financial award.

Year	Author	Novel	Title in English	Publisher
1991	Lojze Kovačič Lojze Kovačič Lojze Kovačič was a Slovene writer. His novel The Newcomers is often considered one of the most important Slovene novels of the 20th century and has been translated into German, French, Spanish and Dutch....	Kristalni čas	Crystal Time	DZS
1992	Feri Lainšček Feri Lainšcek Feri Lainšček is a Slovenian writer, poet, and screenwriter.-Early life:He was born as Franc Lainšček in a Slovene Lutheran family in the village of Dolenci, near Šalovci, in north-eastern Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied journalism at the University...	Namesto koga roža cveti	Instaed of Whom does the Flower Bloom	Prešernova družba
1993	Miloš Mikeln Miloš Mikeln Miloš Mikeln is a Slovene writer, playwright, theatre director and journalist . He was president of Slovene PEN and was the initiator of the Writers for Peace Committe, founded in 1984. He was the Committee Chairman for the first decade of its existence...	Veliki voz	The Great Bear	Mihelač
1994	Andrej Hieng Andrej Hieng Andrej Hieng was a Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.Hieng was born in Ljubljana in 1925. He studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Ljubljana between 1948 and 1952 and worked as a theatre director in Kranj, Celje and Ljubljana...	Čudežni Feliks	The Miraculous Felix	Mladinska knjiga
1995	Tone Perčič Tone Perčič Tone Perčič is a Slovenian writer and translator.Perčič was born in Ljubljana in 1954. He studied French and Italian at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a lecturer in Slovene language at universities in Leipzig, Berlin, Nottingham and Paris.He won the Kresnik Award for his novel...	Izganjalec hudiča	The Exorcist	Cankarjeva založba
1996	Berta Bojetu Berta Bojetu Berta Bojetu, also Berta Bojetu Boeta, was a Slovene writer, poet and actress. She was one of the first Slovenian authors in the second half of the 20th century to address the question of Jewish identity in her literature....	Ptičja hiša	The Birdhouse	Wieser
1997	Vlado Žabot Vlado Žabot Vlado Žabot is a Slovene writer and journalist. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for two terms between 2003 and 2007.Žabot was born in Šafarsko in eastern Slovenia in 1958...	Volčje noči	Wolf Nights	Pomurska založba
1998	Zoran Hočevar Zoran Hočevar Zoran Hočevar is a Slovene writer, playwright and painter.He won the Kresnik Award for his novel Šolen z Brega in 1998.-Novels:* Porkasvet * Šolen z Brega * Za znoret * Rožen cvet...	Šolen z Brega	Šolen from Breg	Založba /*cf
1999	Drago Jančar Drago Jancar Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the most known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement.-Life:...	Zvenenje v glavi	Ringing in the Head	Mladinska knjiga
2000	Andrej E. Skubic Andrej E. Skubic Andrej E. Skubic is a Slovene writer, playwright and translator.Skubic was born in Ljubljana in 1967. He studied English and Slovene at the Arts Faculty of the University of Ljubljana and also worked at the Faculty between 1998 and 2004 when he got his doctorate in Sociolinguistics.In 2000 he won...	Grenki med Grenki med Grenki med is a novel by Slovenian author Andrej E. Skubic. It was first published in 1999....	Bitter Honey	DZS
2001	Drago Jančar Drago Jancar Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the most known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement.-Life:...	Katarina, pav in jezuit	Katarina, the Peacock and the Jesuit	Slovenska matica Slovenska matica Slovenska matica , also known as Matica slovenska, is the second-oldest publishing house in Slovenia, founded in the 19th century as an institution for the scholarly and cultural progress of Slovenes...
2002	Katarina Marinčič Katarina Marinčič Katarina Marinčič is a Slovene writer and literary historian. She has a PhD in French literature and teaches and is a member of the Senate at the Arts Faculty at the University of Ljubljana....	Prikrita harmonija	Hidden Harmony	Mladinska knjiga
2003	Rudi Šeligo Rudi Šeligo Rudi Šeligo was a Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and politician. Together with Lojze Kovačič and Drago Jančar, he is considered as one of the foremost Slovenian modernist writers of the post-World War II period.- Life :...	Izgubljeni sveženj	Lost Package	Nova revija Nova revija Nova revija is a Slovenian publishing house and cultural institute that developed from the literary journal with the same name.- The magazine :...
2004	Lojze Kovačič Lojze Kovačič Lojze Kovačič was a Slovene writer. His novel The Newcomers is often considered one of the most important Slovene novels of the 20th century and has been translated into German, French, Spanish and Dutch....	Otroške stvari	Things of Childhood	Beletrina
2005	Alojz Rebula Alojz Rebula Alojz Rebula is a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist and translator, who lives and works in the Province of Trieste, Italy. He is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.-Life:...	Nokturno za Primorsko	A Nocturne for Primorska	Mohorjeva Celje/Trst
2006	Milan Dekleva Milan Dekleva Milan Dekleva is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist.Dekleva was born in Ljubljana in 1946. He graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana and...	Zmagoslavje podgan	The Triumph of the Rats	Cankarjeva založba
2007	Feri Lainšček Feri Lainšcek Feri Lainšček is a Slovenian writer, poet, and screenwriter.-Early life:He was born as Franc Lainšček in a Slovene Lutheran family in the village of Dolenci, near Šalovci, in north-eastern Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied journalism at the University...	Muriša	Muriša	Beletrina
2008	Štefan Kardoš Štefan Kardoš Štefan Kardoš is a Slovene writer. He lives in Murska Sobota and works as a teacher at the Bilingual Secondary School in Lendava.In 2008 Kardoš won the Kresnik Award for his novel Rizling polka...	Rizling polka	Riesling Polka	Litera
2009	Goran Vojnović Goran Vojnović Goran Vojnović is a Slovenian writer, poet, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his 2008 novel Southern Scum Go Home which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police...	Čefurji raus!	Southern Scum Go Home!	Beletrina
2010	Tadej Golob Tadej Golob Tadej Golob is a Slovene mountaineer and writer.Golob was born in Maribor in 1967 and grew up in the small town of Lenart v Slovenskih goricah in northeastern Slovenia. He moved to Ljubljana to study journalism but never completed his studies...	Svinjske nogice	Pigs' Legs	Litera
2011	Drago Jančar Drago Jancar Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the most known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement.-Life:...	To noč sem jo videl	I Saw Her That Night	Modrijan

External links

• Kresnik Award on the Slovenia Cultural Profiles Project site, a Ministry of Culture of Slovenia and British Council Slovenia joint project