Pia Prezelj (1995) is a writer, translator and journalist for the cultural section of Delo, Slovenia’s largest and central daily newspaper. In 2022, she was awarded the Young Journalist of the Year Watchdog Award by the Slovenian Journalists’ Association. Her translation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women was published in 2018 by Cankarjeva založba. Her debut novel Heavy Water (Goga, 2023), which tells the story of an elderly woman in a remote rural village, won the Debut of the Year Award and was nominated for the Cankar Award, the Kresnik – Best Novel of the Year Award and the Critics’ Sieve Award.
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