Goran Vojnović

  • Slovenia

Goran Vojnović is a Slovenian writer, film director and screenwriter. He is the author of four novels translated into more than 20 languages and has directed several feature films. His bestselling, breakthrough novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland was published in English in 2015, his latest novel The Fig Tree in 2020. It is a multigenerational family saga, a tour de force spanning three generations from the mid-20th century through the Balkans wars of the 1990s up to the present day. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

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