Three candidates from Slovenia have been selected to take part in the 2022/2023 Ulysses' Shelter 3 residency programme.

photo by Robert Balen

Ajda Bračič (1990) is active as an architect, publicist and editor, and works with many media from the fields of architecture and culture (Ekran, AirBeletrina, Hiše, Outsider, Razpotja, ETC, Literatura, etc.). Her poetry and short stories have been published in the magazines Literatura, Sodobnost, Rukopisi, Medmet, on the national broadcaster Radio ARS, as well as Radio Študent, she has also won several competition awards. In 2018, the Ignor art collective published a limited edition of booklets of her poetry entitled gravženroža. In 2022, LUD Literatura published her literary debut, a short story collection entitled Leteči ljudje. Her short prose is currently being translated into German and Ukraninan, while her poetry has been translated into German, English and Serbian.

photo by Robert Marin

Sergej Harlamov (1989, Slovenija) is a poet, sociologist, literary comparativist and publicist. In 2011, he was the guest at the Pranger Festival of literature and criticism as a winner of the Young Literature Festival Urška, and his debut book Jedci came out in the same year. His follow up poetry collection Mnogoboj mitologij (2019) was nominated for the Jenko Award, as well as the Kritiško sito Award. It was also included in the selection publication Ten books from Slovenia, selected by the expert critics, as one of the most interesting publications in the year of 2019. This year, Harlamov published his third poetry collection of experimental, concrete-abstract poetry entitled Hypomnemata ali Obnovimo osnove pisanja. His poems were published in all important Slovenian literary magazines and translated into Serbian, German, Hungarian and English. Also, his interdisciplinary BA thesis entitled Michel Houellebecq and the Archaeology of the Present won him the national Student Prešeren Fund Award.

photo by Andrej Petelinšek

Tibor Hrs Pandur (1985, Maribor) is a poet, translator, dramaturge, playwright and teslologist. From 2009 to 2018 he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine and paraliterary organisation I.D.I.O.T. He translates from German, English, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish. In 2008, his debut play Dream 59 was staged at Glej Theatre, for which he was awarded the Young Playwright Award at the 43rd Week of Slovenian Drama in 2013. In 2010, his poetry debut Energymachine was published by the Center for Slovenian Literature; and in 2011, his translation debut of selected poems by Jim Morrison: The Eyewitness (Aleph, Center for Slovenian Literature). In 2017, his second collection of poetry, Internal Affairs, was published by Litera in Maribor. In 2019, his translation of Nikola Tesla's essay The Problem of Increasing of Human Energy (with an extensive accompanying study entitled Tesla's Hybris and the Laws of Nature) was published by ZRC SAZU and Litera, reprinted in an expanded and updated edition in 2021. As a dramaturge he collaborates with Nina Rajić Kranjac and Livija Pandur. His third collection of poetry, Psyops, will be published by Litera in 2022.

The candidates chosen by the partner organisations are: