Miha Mazzini is the most widely read Slovenian columnist and until recently he was regularly writing for the Slovenian Siol.net portal. Internationally his pieces have appeared in Polish magazine Przekrój and Guardian among others.
Here is just a small selection:
2023
Who Killed Gutenberg’s Magic Circle? for the Independent Publishing Magazine.
Nonfiction books used to be part of a magic circle: they brought new ideas, got readers excited, making them reach their own ideas and create new books.
Today they are just another piece of merchandise among many. What happened?
2021
Walking round the world in a day – in Ljubljana, Slovenia for the Guardian (travelogue, tourism, travel, imagination, lockdown)
2020
A Foreigner in Your Own Home – The Story of Slovenia’s Erased for Przekrój (illegal immigrants, stateless, state violence, government, human rights)
Never Stop Trying for Przekrój (lockdown, Covid, Camino, writing, creation)
Raise Your Own Robot! for Przekrój (education, emotional exchange, learning, emotional intelligence, phones, children, toddlers)
COVID-19 Has Transposed Us to the Future for Przekrój (pandemics, segregation according to age and health, ageism)
2016
Unfinished Births for Siol.net (fathers, mothers, upbringing, children, telecommunications, education)
2011
Slovene mother for Siol.net (mothers, fathers, programming the children, mentality)
The column got so popular that is by now shared without attributing the author, like a folk tale.
It was published in the book If you don’t like it here, move out!
