Irena Svetek

Irena Svetek (1975) holds a doctorate from the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. Her first novel Close Up (Od blizu) won her the 2004 Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair and a nomination for the Kresnik Award for best novel

of the year. She is also author of the novels Seventh Wave (Sedmi val, 2011) and Go to Sleep, My Child, Go to Sleep (Zaspi, mala moja, zaspi, 2014). In recent years she has been mostly scriptwriting and has written the screenplays for numerous films, TV series and programmes. In 2021 she published the first in her series of psychological crime novels Little Red Riding Hood (Rdeča kapica). The novel became a best-seller and is being made into a TV series. White Wolf is the second novel of the series and a TV adaptation is also forthcoming.