Yugoslavia, My Fatherland

Goran Vojnović exploded onto the Slovenian literary scene in 2008 with his debut novel Southern Scum Go Home!. The novel became an instant bestseller – it is in fact one of the bestselling Slovenian novels in recent decades. The novel reaped all the major national literary awards, including the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year and the Prešeren Fund Award, Slovenia’s highest award for artistic achievement, His second novel, Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (2012), also received the Kresnik Award, was adapted for stage and translated into thirteen languages. His third novel, The Fig Tree (Figa, 2016), once again received the Kresnik. Vojnović is only the third person to ever receive three Kresnik Awards in its 27-year history, and no one has won it more than three times; he is also the first and only writer to have received the award for all his novels.