Wartime story named Slovenian novel of the year

Lado Kralj, a literary and theatre critic who died in December, has been posthumously awarded the Kresnik Prize for Slovenian novel of the year for a story taking place in Ljubljana between the Italian occupation in the early 1940s and the post-war period in the 1950s.

A mix of fiction and fact, Ne Bom Se Več Drsal na Bajerju (I'm Not Skating on the Pond Anymore) is the second novel by Kralj and was published by Beletrina just before he died.

It focuses on events in the Šiška borough of Ljubljana, home to the small yet popular pond known as Koseški Bajer, where a...