A fairytale gathering with a distinguished Slovenian poet and Celje native Bino Stamps Žmavc, who will also be joined by an illustrator Peter Skerl.
The author will read to children from her collections Cinema with Ino the pussy and Mižekmiž, sailor of the world.
We will socialize with music and dancing, and we have also prepared a sweet surprise for the youngest.
The event is being prepared in collaboration with Celje Mohor Society during the week of Slovenian public libraries.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bina Štampe Žmavc, a Slovenian writer, poet, translator and director, born in 1951 in Celje, studied comparative literature and literary theory at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. As a graduate, she got a job in education and taught for five years. She was involved in music and theatre. For thirteen years, she led a children's improvisational theatre at the Experimental Theatre in Celje, where she was a director, dramaturge and author of texts. She is a member of the editorial board of the magazine PoeticonToday, it is considered one of the classics of Slovenian youth literature. She lives and works in Celje.
She writes poems, prose, and plays, mostly for young readers. She first began publishing poetry for adults in her high school newsletter. Buds, and later in Dialogues, To the mentor and CheeksShe wrote three poetry collections of sonnets. Sand in a song, Oblique sun, NoonAmong the poetry collections, the most extensive is Witches (1990); their motifs are everyday life, reality and imaginative experience. In the collection Heavenly Chariots (1994), the author focuses on the theme of the interconnectedness of the universe, humans and nature, with Chatterbox (1996), returns to the child and his playful relationship with his surroundings. Among the narrative texts are animal stories (Pictures and stories from a thousand and one dog days (1985)) and various short fairy-tale and nonsense texts (Dream Repair Shop (1992), Soft-pawed cat (1998)). Her youth poetry is characterized by a rich poetic language. The poet invents words, her poems are rhythmic. Her youth storytelling is characterized by imaginative worlds. She also writes plays and puppet works for children and chansons for adults.
The popular and award-winning author of poetry and prose for children and adults has been collaborating with the Celje Mohorjeva družba since 1992, when she published a fairy tale with the publishing house. Dream Repair Shop. They followed The Ghost Motimir – a rhyming fairy tale about a ghost who got too fat (2002), an award-winning and repeatedly reprinted book of poetry Living house (20041), and poetry collections Snowdrop (2006) and Vases (2008). His latest Crime-meow-ko Cinema with Ino the pussy (2020) is dedicated to Ina – the cat who brought her back.