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Following Fata Morgana

  • Publisher: Mladika
  • 240 pages
  • Author: Evelina Umek
  • Original title: Po sledeh fate morgane

Marica Nadlišek Bartol, born in 1867, is best known in Slovenian cultural history as the mother of the writer Vladimir Bartol. It is probably less well known to the general public that, until her marriage to the tax official Gregor Bartol, Marica was a teacher, publicist, writer - the author of the first novel from Trieste, Fatamorgana, editor - she edited the first Slovenian women's magazine Slovenka, a national revivalist, an advocate of women's emancipation and unhappily in love with the writer Janko Kersnik, with whom she corresponded regularly until his untimely death. Such, curious, demanding, dreamy and in conflict with the cruel reality of fascism and wartime, in love and disappointed, poetic and everyday, appears to us in the novelized biography of Evelina Umek. Femininity and art, reality and fantasy meet in this work and offer a unique portrayal of a forgotten woman.

About the author

Evelina Umek

Evelina Umek (Trieste, 1939) graduated from the Department of Slavic Studies of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She worked in publishing and then as an editor in the children's and youth program of RTV Slovenia. She wrote several books for children. She translated a lot from Italian to Slovenian. The Mladika publishing house published children's works "Sprehod z baronom in drugimi imenitnimi Slovenci" (A walk with the baron and other illustrious Slovenians), "Malka gre v Trst" (Malka goes to Trieste) and "Deklica in metulj" (The girl and the butterfly), and books for adults: collections of short stories by "Mandrija in druge zgodbe" (Mandrija and other stories) and "Odtisi v času" (Imprints in time), as well as the novels "Frizerka" (The hairdresser), "Hiša na Krasu" (The house on the Karst), Po sledeh fate morgane" (Following Fata Morgana), "Zlata poroka ali tržaški blues" (Golden wedding or Trieste blues) and "Sidrišče spomina" (Anchorage of memory). For the collection "Mandrija in druge zgodbe" she received the Vstajenje literary award.