Dušan Šarotar (1968) is a writer, poet, translator, screenwriter and photographer. The central theme of his recent works is the fate of the Jewish community and the Holocaust in Prekmurje. At the heart of his artistic creation are language, grief, and the human soul, all of which he approaches with a poetic language and his typical unhurried pace. His prose is characterised by descriptions of nature, the town, and a particularly local atmosphere. His novels, Biljard v Dobrayu (Billards at the Hotel Dobray) (Beletrina, 2007), Panorama (Beletrina, 2014) and Zvezdna karta (Star Chart) (Goga, 2021) were all nominated for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year in Slovenia. In 2023 he received the Župančič Award for his novel Zvezdna karta. The English editions of Panorama and Billards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the novel Panorama was on the longlist for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award and received the Cesar-Lopez Cuadras Award in 2017. In 2012 Šarotar began developing and exhibiting his photographic series Duše (Souls). His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Murska Sobota Gallery.