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Maja Novak (born 23 April 1960) is a Slovenian writer, translator and journalist.〔http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-feline-plague-by-maja-novak-review〕 Born in the industrial town of Jesenice, she grew up in Nova Gorica, a planned town on the Yugoslav-Italian border. She studied business law at the University of Ljubljana and worked as business secretary in Jordan before settling in Ljubljana, where she works as a journalist. She started publishing short stories in the early 1990s. She has published four novels: ''Izza kongresa, ali umor v teritorialnih vodah'' (Behind the Congress, or Murder in Territorial Waters, 1993), ''Cimre'' (Roommates, 1995), ''Kafarnaum'' (Capernaum, 1998), and ''Mačja kuga'' (The Feline Plague, 2000), as well as the collection of short prose ''Zverinjad'' (Wild Beasts, 1996) and three books for children.〔http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781556437649-1〕 Her novel ''Mačja kuga'' (The Feline Plague) has been praised as a literary masterpiece.〔http://airshipdaily.com/blog/the-ten-best-eastern-european-books-youve-never-heard-of〕 She translates from French (Gaston Leroux), Italian (Alessandro Baricco, Susanna Tamaro, and Giacomo Casanova), Serbian (Vladimir Arsenijević), and English (Helen Fielding, Alain de Botton, and Terry Pratchett). Among other works, she translated Richard Dawkins's ''The God Delusion'' into Slovene.〔http://www.bukla.si/?action=books&book_id=2633〕 She writes a regular op-ed column in the weekly magazine ''Mladina''.〔http://www.mladina.si/146526/maja-novak/〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maja Novak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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