Nataša Konc Lorenzutti

Coffee by the Fragarant Jasmine

Translation

Kristina Helena Reardon

About the book

The central subject of Coffee by the Fragment Jasmine is the complex psychological relationship between Jasmina and her husband. Primož is addicted to gambling and severely in debt, and Jasmina is addicted to him. Regardless of all the pain he causes her and their children, she remains by his side, believing that he will eventually change. Will Jasmina finally be able to escape Primož’s influence and live her life to the fullest? A masterfully written story that portrays all the complexity of this difficult theme in rich and poetic language.

Original title: Kava pri dišečem jasminu

Edited by: Kristina Sluga

Afterword: Tina Vrščaj

Afterward translation: Lukas Debeljak

ISBN: 9789616995993

Pages: 256

Price: 18,00

159 LXI (2023)

About the author

Nataša Konc Lorenzutti

Nataša Konc Lorenzutti (1970) studied acting at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. After graduating, she spent several years acting in Slovenian professional theatres. Since 1999, she has devoted herself mostly to the writing of literature. She has written twenty books for children and young adults and six for adults. Her books have been nominated for, or have received, the most important Slovenian literary awards. She has received two Zlata Hruška Honor Awards for youth literature, the Svetlobnica Award for the best novel, and was selected for the Honors List of the IBBY international organization for youth literature. She has also been nominated several times for the Desetnica Award for the best literary work for children or young readers, the Večernica Award for the best literary work for young adults, and also for the Kristina Brenk Award for best original picture book and the Blue Bird Award for best unpublished literary work. She is a member of the Slovene Writers’ Association and a member of the Slovene PEN Centre.

About the translator

Kristina Helena Reardon

Kristina Helena Reardon is a writer, translator, college instructor, and freelance journalist. She earned her Ph.D. in comparative literary and cultural studies from the University of Connecticut in 2019 and her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of New Hampshire in 2010. She held a Fulbright scholarship for translation in Slovenia in 2010–2011 and during that time co-translated several short stories written by women that have since been published in World Literature Today, Words Without Borders, Slovene Studies, and other American journals and magazines. A part of her doctoral dissertation, which focused on humor during the First World War era, was awarded the Rado L. Lencek Graduate Student Prize from the Society for Slovene Studies in 2018. Her own fiction has been published in several magazines, including The Adirondack Review, and since 2015 she has worked as associate director of the Center for Writing at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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