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 "Nebesa v Robidah" (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, with her short story "Slana rulet" (The Sault Rullete).

She received the EU Prize for Literature in 2010 for her book "Nebesa v Robidah" (2007)

Nataša 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.

She is currently working on the project "Polne vreče zgodb" (Bags of Stories).

Thanks to the HALMA grant you can read a sample translation of Nataša Kramberger's writing in Bulgarian.



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

Picture by Daniele Croci