Career
Vesna Lemaić is a writer from Slovenia. In 2008, she entered the literary scene with a highly acclaimed short stories collection Popular stories (Popularne zgodbe). In year 2010, her first novel The Dumping ground (Odlagališče) was published.
Regarding short stories, story "The pool (Bazen) was placed into short stories collection Best European fiction 2014.
Her stories were published in literary periodicals Literatura, Sodobnost, Dialogi et cetera Her radio drama Underpassenger (Podpotnik) was produced by Slovene national radio Radio Slovenija.
Vesna Lemaić"s literary works have been translated into several languages, among them Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, Hungarian, Lithuanian, German and English language. She collaborates with ŠKUC Association in organizing annual international literary-musical festival Live literature that occurs every June in Ljubljana.
In addition, she established reading club Anoymous readers and regularly carries out creative writing and group trash writing workshops.