Background
Smolnikar was born in Herceg Novi in 1941.
Smolnikar was born in Herceg Novi in 1941.
She studied textile engineering and worked in the textile industry for a number of years.
She writes for adults and young readers. After the outbreak of the Second World War the family moved to Slovenia. In the 1980s she wrote adult fiction under the pseudonym Gospa.
In 1998 she published her book Ko se tam gori olistajo breze (When the Birches Up There Are Greening) which brough a prolonged lawsuit upon the author and a prohibition on the sale of the book until the case was finally dismissed by the Slovenian Constitutional Court in 2005.