Nataša Kramberger was born in Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia, in 1983. She won the Slovenian young authors prize in 2006 and her book Heaven in a blackberry bush, a novel in stories was nominated for the Kresnik Prize as Slovenia’s best novel of the year in 2008. In the same year Nataša won the international short story competition A Sea of Words, which is sponsored by the Anna Lindh Foundation.

Nataša currently works as a reporter for the Večer Daily newspaper and for the paper’s 7dn magazine. She even finds time to pen a monthly column in the magazine Kažin and writes a literary diary for another magazine, Mentor.

The grant for Natasa Kramberger was made possible thanks to the support of the S. Fisher foundation.

Picture by Daniele Croci