Tratnik, Suzana

Suzana Tratnik (born 1963) is a writer, translator, publicist, and sociologist. She has published six short-story collections, two novels ("My Name is Damjan" and "Third World"), a play, and three works of nonfiction. Tratnik was one of the founders of the LGBT-rights movement in 1980s Yugoslavia and was instrumental in creating one of Eastern Europe's most vibrant alternative cultural scenes before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2007 she was awarded the Pre eren Foundation Prize, one of Slovenia's most prestigious literary awards.