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A literary evening with Slovene writer and artist Cvetka Bevc
28 November 2023, 6:00 pm鈥�8:00 pm
Co-organised by the SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar series, the Slovene embassy in London, and the Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language at the University of Ljubljana
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SSEES – 果冻影院 SSEES02076798750
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Masaryk Senior Common Room16 Taviton StreetLondonWC1H 0BWUnited Kingdom
Join us for a discussion with writer, poet, screenwriter, and musicologist Cvetka Bevc moderated by SSEES Slovene lector Maja Ran膷igaj Bene拧. The evening will focus particularly on the parts of Bevc鈥檚 diverse oeuvre about or inspired by Zofka Kveder (1878鈥�1926), a pioneering Slovene feminist and woman writer. These include Bevc鈥檚 2022 documentary-fiction TV film Biti 啪enska, biti Zofka Kveder (Being a woman, Being Zofka Kveder), of which excerpts will be screened, and the 2022 poetry collection Sled ognjenega svin膷nika (The Trace of a Fiery Pencil), from which Bevc will read selected poems. One admiring critic described the collection thus: 鈥楥vetka Bevc borrowed the mask of another speaker, with which she testifies about her view of the world, because, truth be told, the experiences of women in both times overlap in many ways.鈥� Some of the themes drawn from Bevc鈥檚 interest in Zofka Kveder also appear in her latest novel Pti膷i (Birds). SSEES students of Slovene Shaun Foley and Yll Buzoku translated some of Bevc鈥檚 work for this occasion.
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About the Speaker
Cvetka Bevc
Cvetka Bevc (born 1960) is a Slovene writer, poet, screenwriter, and musicologist. After completing her studies in musicology and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and University College Cork, she worked for Slovenian state television and the state publishing house. She is the author of over thirty books of prose and poetry, numerous radio plays as well as scripts for feature films and documentaries. Her most recent novel Pti膷i (Birds) was published in 2022. She now resides in Paris.