Feri Lainšček

Fiction
Slovene
Slovenia

Franc (Feri) Lainšček, born in 1959 in the village Dolenci in the northeastern corner of Slovenia, studied Journalism at the University of Ljubljana. He has been a freelance writer since 1983, and an editor in the publishing house Franc-Franc in Murska Sobota since 2007. Feri Lainšček’s opus as a writer is immense and many of his novels were made into films. The film Petelinji zajtrk [Rooster’s Breakfast] made after the book with the same title was the most viewed film in Slovenia since Slovenia’s independence.