Miha Mazzini (1961) is a writer with more than 30 published books. One of his short stories won the US Pushcart Prize in 2012. He is also an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker (his last feature film won Best Screenplay Award at the Raindance Film Festival and was picked up by HBO). He also holds a PhD in anthropology. His books about his childhood are popular and critically acclaimed, including Kralj ropotajočih duhov (The King of the Rattling Spirits) (Študentska založba, 2001). The film adaptation of the book, Sweet Dreams, won the Golden Palm for Best Film at the Mostra de Valencia. In addition, his book Otroštvo (Childhood) (Goga, 2015) has been translated into three languages and won the national Kresnik Award for best novel. His latest book is Osebno (It’s Personal) (Goga, 2022). Some of his other novels and films focus on people who find themselves without rights and in the clutches of bureaucracy. He has given voice to those who are silenced, as in his book and feature film Izbrisana (Erased), which looks at the issue of the nearly 2 % of the population of Slovenia who were, in the bureaucratic and political aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia, erased from state records in 1992, rendering them stateless.