Each year, Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature invites international writers for a residency in the city, while writers from Fryslân take part in residencies in other cities. From 26 April to 18 May, Pia Prezelj from Slovenia will live and work in Leeuwarden.
Pia Prezelj (Slovenia, 1995) is a writer, translator, and journalist for Delo, Slovenia’s largest daily newspaper. In 2022, she was awarded the Young Journalist of the Year Watchdog Award by the Slovenian Journalists’ Association.
Her debut novel Heavy Water (Težka voda, 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’ Sieve Award. Heavy Water is currently being translated into Italian, Danish and Croatian.
