Miha Mazzini

Miha Mazzini
Miha Mazzini

Miha Mazzini
Born June 3, 1961 (1961-06-03) (age 50)
Jesenice), Slovenia
Occupation Novelist, Screenwriter, Columnist
Nationality Slovenian
Alma mater University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Period 1981 to present
Genres Novel, Short story
Notable work(s) Guarding Hanna, The Cartier Project, King of the Rattling Spirits

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Miha Mazzini (born 3 June 1961 in Jesenice) is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director with twenty-three published books, translated in eight languages. He possesses a PhD in anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis and has MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television at The University of Sheffield. He is Voting member of the European Film Academy.

His work was selected for many anthologies, recently his short story Mother was included in Contemporary European Fiction anthology.

“In ... Guarding Hanna, [Mazzini] has created a bestial protagonist ... a gargoyle of a man [who] struggles heroically with his own nature only to find that life has played him one horrific joke.”

—Village Voice

“[Hanna’s] a wonderful creation: vulnerable, lonely, trying to keep her mood upbeat but not always succeeding. In fact, she’s just the thing to melt the Beast’s hostility—or drive him, with her chatter, to homicidal distraction....Throw in the narrator’s grim musings on his lot in life and his occasional urge to strangle Hanna, and you have a tonic mix of menace and comedy that keeps things hopping right up to the book’s twist ending.”

—Seattle Times

Miha Mazzini’s novel The Cartier Project was ex-Yugoslavia’s all-time best-selling novel and won the 1987 Best Novel of the Year award from both the state and opposition presses.

Contents

English bibliography

  • Guarding Hanna (2003, a novel)
  • The Cartier Project (2004, a novel)
  • King of the Rattling Spirits (2005, a novel)
  • Clear Moments (2008, short story collection)

E-books

Films

  • Cartier Project (1991, TV film, scriptwriter)
  • You're Free. Decide. (1999, short film, scriptwriter and director)
  • Sweet Dreams (2001, feature film, scriptwriter)
  • The Orphan with the magic voice (2003, short film, scriptwriter and director)
  • A Very Simple Story (2008, short film, scriptwriter and director)

Multilingual Web film project

A Very Simple Story script in multiple languages, read by actresses from different countries. Screenwriter and director of Slovenian (8:28) and Italian (9:57) film. Project was nominated for the Prix Europe award.

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