Damijan Šinigoj

Damijan Šinigoj (born 1964 in Novo Mesto) is a Slovene writer, translator, editor, publicist and scriptwriter. He is a member of Slovene Writers' Association, Slovene Translators' Association, chief editor at GOGA Publishing House and Park newspaper, as well as columnist at MAMA magazine.
He wrote two novels, They Shoot The Soldiers, Don’t They? (Amalietti, Ljubljana, 1991) and Unfired Rounds (Amalietti & Slon, Ljubljana, 1994), and a collection of short stories Father’s Cosy Nook (GOGA, Novo Mesto, 2003). In 2000 he translated the novel Short Trip by Ratko Cvetnić from Croatian, in 2001 the novel Witness by Zilhad Ključanin from Bosnian, in 2003 the novel Surfacing by Veselin Marković from Serbian, and in 2006 Things I Kept Inside Me by Aleksandra Kardum from Croatian. A documentary film When The War Knocks was filmed after his script.