LJUBLJANA (SLOVENIA)
STA English [Ljubljana, Slovenia]
January 27, 2023
Author Svetlana Makarovič will accept the Prešeren Prize, Slovenia’s top award for achievements in arts, after she refused it for 23 years in protest of Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit artist and priest, being awarded the prize as well. After sex abuse allegations against Rupnik made headlines last December he was urged to return the prize.
https://english.sta.si/3132524/poet-to-accept-prize-after-decades-of-protest-over-honouring-now-disgraced-priest