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"I don't recognize the category of 'children's' or young adult' literature. I write a story that charms me, that makes me happy; whoever wants to read it, should do it. With this writing I am probably nourishing the child within me."
-Andersen dossier
Born in 1939, Svetlana Makarovic graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Ljubljana and for several years pursued a successful carrier onstage before devoting herself to writing. Her first book of poetry was published in 1964; her subsequent books have taken her to the summit of contemporary Slovenian poetry. To date, she has published more than fifty collections of fairy tales, poems, and picture books that have undergone many reprintings and reissues and have been translated into...