Books
Erica is the author of three previous books in Slovenia,
among them Foreigner in the House of Natives. She lives
with her husband and three children in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Forbidden Bread (new)
(North Atlantic, Berkeley, forthcoming in 2009, in English)
In Forbidden Bread, Erica Johnson Debeljak takes us on a journey of love to, of all places, Slovenia. Her story is at once adventurous, romantic, and humorous. Debeljak’s inviting prose grabs us by the hand and leads us through the unlikely romance between a Balkan Casanova poet and a sophisticated New York City financier.
You Are So Mine (Tako si moj)
(Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, 2008, in Slovenian)
A collection of award-winning short stories described by Igor Bratož in his Delo review as “the short story triumph of the literary season.”
Srečko Kosovel: The Poet and I (Srečko Kosovel: Pesnik in jaz)
(Beletrina, Ljubljana, 2004, in Slovenian)
The Poet and I is an unconventional biography of the Slovenian poet, Srečko Kosovel, who died at the age of twenty-two in 1926, only posthumously entering the country’s poetic canon as one of its most revered literary icons. Through his poems and correspondence, the author (herself an exile of sorts) tries to imagine the inner life of the young, beautiful, exiled poet.
Foreigner in the House of Natives (Tujka v hiši domačinov)
(Založba Obzorje, Maribor, 1999, in Slovenian)
“Not everything is translatable. After the beauties of the Slovenian version of Tujka, I want the book in English, and I want it now, and I want it illustrated.”
Tom Lozar, review for Tujka v hiši domačinov in Journal of Slovene Studies, June 2000
