A literary evening with Slovene writer and artist Cvetka Bevc

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.