The star of Croatian literature Kristian Novak is coming to the last Virtual Literary Café in May with his novel Gypsy, but the Most Beautiful.

In a conversation with Kristian Koželj, the event could also be called [Kristian squared], he will present the work, "a masterful literary achievement that creates full-blooded heroes and with them the real world from marginalized people, often condemned to secondary or stereotyped roles in literature. The young Roma Sandi falls in love with Milena, a divorced forty-year-old who has just lost her job through injustice. Nuzat, a Kurd from Mosul, flees danger and seeks a (better) life. Plančić, a PR man for the Zagreb police, tries to cover up a scandal. In the midst of all these stories, a corpse appears, which makes the novel readable on the surface as a suspenseful crime novel, while deeper down, the social and societal drama of the present unfolds, transcending the boundaries of fiction." [source: Fabula]A few more words about the author:
Kristian Novak (1979) is one of the most famous Croatian writers, his novel Črna mati zemla received great reader enthusiasm throughout the entire Southern European region, including among Slovenian readers. A feature film is currently being made based on his literary proposal, directed by Rok Biček. The novel Cigan, apk nejslješ, which followed Črna materija zemla, also received the most prestigious Croatian literary awards, was declared the novel of the year and, according to many, even surpassed its predecessor; with it, Novak entered the canon of contemporary Croatian literature. Directed by Ivica Buljan, it premiered on the stage of the Zagreb National Theatre, and in 2020 we finally got a translation in Slovenian, and this year the author visited Ljubljana and Nova Gorica as part of the Fabula festival.