Guarding Miha
Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Miha Mazzini, author of the recently-released Guarding Hanna and numerous other books not yet available in translation. Miha was the gracious, though slightly exhausted, guest of honor at a small dinner party hosted by his American publisher, Scala House Press. His just-completed two-week reading tour of the Northwest was apparently a big success and his novel is beginning to get some attention: notice in Publishers Weekly and a good review from the Village Voice is slated to run any day now (but not there yet), and Scala House publisher Mark White says orders for the book continue to roll in from numerous and unlikely sources. Miha chatted amiably with any and all through the course of the evening, discussing upcoming projects, the curious business methods of the Slovenian film board (which produced “Sweet Dreams,” a film he wrote, then failed to put any effort whatsoever into seeing to its promotion and release), and the state of contemporary European literature. I was especially gratified that he had seen the review that I posted here several weeks ago, which seems to be drawing a trickle of interest from some very unusual quarters. Miha has said he will provide me with a special greeting for Slovenian visitors to Emphasis Added once he’s back on his home soil and sufficiently recovered from his American odyssey.
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