- 80 pages
- Author: Tatjana Pregl Kobe
- Ilustrator: Tina Dobrajc
- Original title: Frida in zmaj Artur Gaj v Grčiji
In the third book Frida and her friends set off to Greece, the land whose culture and history built the foundations of the modern Western civilisation. To the land of countless islands, ancient temples, and theatres. To the land, where we shall meet Agamemnon, Aegeus, Achilles, Phillip II of Macedon, Pericles, Minas, Odysseus, Alexander the Great, the Greek gods and their stories, Sophocles, Homer, philosophers like Diogenes, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, etc. The story will take us to the Temple of Apollo, the Oracle of Delphi, to the holy Mount Athos, and to Olympus; we shall visit Athens, the Corinth Canal, the Parthenon, Piraeus and Thermopile, and join Sappho on the island of Lefkada to read her poem:
We know this much
Death is an evil;
we have the gods’
word for it; they too
would die if death
were a good thing
(Sappho)
Tatjana Pregl Kobe
Tatjana Pregl Kobe was born on July 31, 1946 in Maribor. She is a graduate of Art History and works as an art critic, writer, poet and essayist. She studied at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana at the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Art History, and graduated in 1978 under the supervision of Professor Dr. Nace Šumi. One of her most important academic works is the book Slovenian Book Illustration (Slovenka knjižna ilustracija) (1979), in which she laid the foundations for further research in this field with a wealth of documentation material and analytical assessment. As an art critic and curator, she has put together more than 500 exhibitions. She is a popular children's and youth author, many of her poems have found their place in school textbooks and children's magazines (Ciciban, Kekec, Otroci, Otrok in družina, Trobentica), and have also been translated into foreign languages. As the author of numerous books on art history and art criticism, she has also poured her knowledge into the fairy-tale-theoretical collection Frida and the Dragon Artur Gaj (Frida in zmaj Artur Gaj).
She is a member of the Slovenian Art Critics Association, the Slovenian Writers Association, the Slovenian section of PEN and one of the founders of Mira, the PEN Women's Committee. She lives and works in Ljubljana.
Tina Dobrajc
Tina Dobrajc is a Batchelor of Fine Arts, born in 1984 in Kranj. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2007 and then completed her Master's degree in painting at the same academy in 2011 under the mentorship of Professor Herman Gvardjančič. Her artistic creativity was noticed and recognised early in her career; in 2011 she was nominated for the ESSL Art Award, in 2015 she received the Rihard Jakopič Award for Young Artists, and a year later she received the Hinko Smekar Plaque for her illustrations. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.
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