A literary evening with Slovene writer and artist Cvetka Bevc
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.
A literary evening with Slovene writer and artist Cvetka Bevc
28 Nov 2023, 18:00 – 20:00
Join us for a discussion with writer, poet, screenwriter, and musicologist Cvetka Bevc moderated by SSEES Slovene lector Maja Rančigaj Beneš. The evening will focus particularly on the parts of Bevc’s diverse oeuvre about or inspired by Zofka Kveder (1878—1926), a pioneering Slovene feminist and woman writer. These include Bevc’s 2022 documentary-fiction TV film Biti ženska, biti Zofka Kveder (Being a woman, Being Zofka Kveder), of which excerpts will be screened, and the 2022 poetry collection Sled ognjenega svinčnika (The Trace of a Fiery Pencil), from which Bevc will read selected poems. One admiring critic described the collection thus: ‘Cvetka 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.’ Some of the themes drawn from Bevc’s interest in Zofka Kveder also appear in her latest novel Ptiči (Birds). SSEES students of Slovene Shaun Foley and Yll Buzoku translated some of Bevc’s work for this occasion.
Cvetka Bevc
Writer, poet, screenwriter, and musicologist
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 Ptiči (Birds) was published in 2022. She now resides i
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