We’re going to the Slovenian coast this week during the final years Yugoslavia with Ana Schnabl. 

Dunja has finally launched her literary career, but the shadow and spectre of her brother’s death haunts both her and her family. What happens when she returns to investigate her brother’s death? And what happens when the truth becomes stranger than the fiction she writes?

Ana Schnabl’s novel is published by Divided Publishing. Ana is a Slovenian writer, and this is her second novel to be translated into English, by Rawley Grau. Her first novel to be translated into English was The Masterpiece, that time by David Limon. In Slovenia, she is a winner of Slovenia’s prestigious literary prize, the Kresnik award. She’s also a regular contributor to the journal The Guardian, writing on Balkan politics and culture.

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Episode Chapters

1.30 - Ana's based in Slovenia

2.35 - Fake crime novels

3.50 - Djuna's relationship with her dead brother.

5.30 - Why has Djuna returned?

7.30 - Family dynamics. 

9.00 - Rockstars and the Slovene transition

10.35 - Michael Jackson

13.30 - a fake crime novel

15.00 - Rippling Pages Bookshop

16.00 - Not liking modernist novels

19.45 - Writing cerebral characters

21.00 - Sentimental feelings about home

24.15 - Ice cream and the Adriatic coast

27.30 - Not believing in legacies.

30.30 sitting with unpleasant people.

31.50 - who helps Djuna.

33.45 - Smoking

 

Reference Points

Agatha Christie 

Marcel Proust

Virginia Woolf

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Date de publication : 5/2/2026 à 06:00:00