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Svetlana Slapšak

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Writer and activist Svetlana Slapšak faced physical and legal threats for her human rights work in Serbia. In 1989, she was dismissed from her job, and in 1991 fled to Slovenia, where she continued her activist work. She received the PEN Freedom to Write Award in 1993. She remains an active public intellectual in Slovenia, where she writes a weekly column, speaks out against xenophobia, and co-authored The Slavic Myths in 2023 to bring Slavic cultural heritage to wider audiences.