Background
Vojnović was born in Ljubljana.
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Goran Vojnovic
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He studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television.
Career
He published his first collection of poetry Lep je ta svet in 1998. His novel started out as an unfinished film script. lieutenant describes life of immigrant youth in the Fužine estate in Ljubljana, their everyday problems and cultural differences between locals and immigrants from the former Yugoslavia.
lieutenant has been translated and published in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian and excerpts translated into German and English.
Achievements
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He is best known for his 2008 novel Southern Scum Go Home (Slovene: Čefurji raus!) which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of Interior. Foreign it he won the Prešeren Foundation Award and the Kresnik Award in 2009. In 2006 the short film Sretan put Nedime (Good Luck Nedim) for which he wrote the script won the Best Short Film Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival which got it a nomination for the European Film Academy Best Short Film Award for 2006.
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Slovenia