Slovenske in evropske pravljičarke

The history of Slovene fairy-tale telling is almost hundred fifty years long. In the middle of the 19th century male and female fairy-tale tellers synchronously participated in the European currents. At that time female authors were in minority in Slovenia; in the period between the two world wars, however, they were already almost equal to men regarding numbers, while the period from 1950–1980 was marked by considerable feminization of fairy-tale telling. Special credit in this respect goes to Kristina Brenk as an author, translator and editor at the publishing house Mladinska knjiga, who initiated an internationally innovative project, a fairy-tale collection Zlata ptica. In contemporary time, especially after 1990, not only Slovenia but also Europe have been witnessing a kind of fairy-tale telling renaissance, fuelled by European integration processes. In the time of contemporary Slovene literature (after 1980) fairy-tale was also a subject of considerable research attention