Vinko Möderndorfer
Vinko Möderndorfer | |
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Vinko Möderndorfer in 2020 | |
| Born | 22 September 1958 Celje, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, playwright and director |
| Notable works | Krog male smrti, Nekatere ljubezni, Gledališče v ogledalu |
| Notable awards | Prešeren Foundation Award 2000 for Nekatere ljubezni Rožanc Award 2003 for Gledališče v ogledalu |
Vinko Möderndorfer (born 22 September 1958) is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright and theatre and film director.
Möderndorfer was born in Celje in 1958. He studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and worked in numerous theatre companies around Slovenia. He started writing poetry in the late 1970s and since the early 1980s also published numerous works of prose, essays and drama as well as poetry and stories for children.
In 2000 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his book of short stories Nekatere ljubezni. In 2003 he received the Rožanc Award for Gledališče v ogledalu (The Theatre in a Mirror).