Dušan Šarotar

Dušan Šarotar (1968) is a writer, poet, screen- writer and photographer. He has published five novels, two collections of short stories, three poetry collections and a book of essays. He is also the author of fifteen screenplays for documen- tary and feature films. His short film Mario Was Watching the Sea with Love (Mario je gledal morje z zaljubljenimi očmi), based on short stories from his collection Blind Spot (Mrtvi kot), won the

2016 Global Short Film Award in New York and the first prize in Ningbo, China, for best short film. Šarotar’s novels, stories and poems have been translated into several languages. Two of his novels, Billiards at the Hotel Dobray (Biljard v Dobrayu, 2007) and Panorama (2015), were nom- inated for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the

year. Šarotar has also had several photographic 43

exhibitions in national galleries and abroad.