{"id":18694,"date":"2025-04-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature.nl\/?p=18694"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:25:51","slug":"writer-in-residence-pia-prezelj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature.nl\/en\/writer-in-residence-pia-prezelj\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer in residence: Pia Prezelj"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each year, Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature invites international writers for a residency in the city, while writers from Frysl\u00e2n take part in residencies in other cities. From 26 April to 18 May, Pia Prezelj from Slovenia will live and work in Leeuwarden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pia Prezelj (Slovenia, 1995) is a writer, translator, and journalist for\u00a0<em>Delo<\/em>, Slovenia\u2019s largest daily newspaper. In 2022, she was awarded the Young Journalist of the Year Watchdog Award by the Slovenian Journalists\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her debut novel<em>\u00a0Heavy Water\u00a0<\/em>(<em>Te\u017eka voda<\/em>, Goga, 2023), which explores the life of an elderly woman in a remote rural village, won the Debut of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Cankar Award, the Kresnik Award for Best Novel of the Year and the Critics\u2019 Sieve Award.\u00a0<em>Heavy Water\u00a0<\/em>is currently being translated into Italian, Danish and Croatian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cela-europe.com\/participants\/pia-prezelj\/\">More information about Pia Prezelj<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature invites international writers for a residency in the city, while writers from Frysl\u00e2n take part in residencies in other cities. 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Pia Prezelj (Slovenia, 1995) is a writer, translator, and journalist for\u00a0Delo, Slovenia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"news_category":[147],"class_list":["post-18694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-residence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Writer in residence: Pia Prezelj - Leeuwarden City of Literature<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature.nl\/en\/writer-in-residence-pia-prezelj\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Writer in residence: Pia Prezelj - Leeuwarden City of Literature\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each year, Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature invites international writers for a residency in the city, while writers from Frysl\u00e2n take part in residencies in other cities. 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