Nataša Velikonja

Nataša Velikonja is a sociologist, poet, essayist, translator. She has published six books of poetry: her first poetry collection Abonma (Subscription; 1994) is considered to be the first openly lesbian poetry collection in Slovenia. She is also the author of five books of essays and scientific papers. In the last twenty years, she has published more than 500 essays, columns, sociological writings and other texts both at home and abroad. She is also a translator: she has translated several works of lesbian and gay theory, gender studies and radical social criticism, as well as theories of architecture and design. In 2016, she received the highest award of City of Ljubljana for artistic creativity, the Župančič award, and in 2018 the International literary award KONS.