Gabriela Babnik Ouattara (1979) addresses the themes of racism, the role of women in contemporary society, and the loneliness of human existence with a global perspective. In her works she focuses on interracial relationships, alienation between family members, eroticism, and the anonymity of identity, combining these subject matters with post-colonial theory. With her reviews and analyses of literary works she regularly appears in literary magazines and journals, she runs literary workshops and writes radio plays. She has participated in various projects that treat literature in a modern, digital manner and has also prepared selections of contemporary Slovene prose for foreign almanacs and journals. She has translated three novels by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie into Slovene and is currently translating the substantial novel Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. Notable among her own novels are Koža iz bombaža (Cotton Skin) (Mladinska knjiga, 2007), Sušna doba (Dry Season) (Beletrina, 2012), Tri smrti (Three Deaths) (Beletrina, 2019) and Tišina, polna vetra (A Silence Full of the Wind) (Beletrina, 2022).