Boštjan Gorenc – Pižama lives in a small village on the edge of Carniola and, if official sources are to be believed, he was also once born. He hasn’t died yet or he is very good at hiding it. Since he was little, he’s been in love with language, which is also the common denominator of everything he dabbles in. In literary circles, he made his introduction as a translator. He won favours with the youngest readers with translations of the Captain Underpants and Dog Man (Pilkey), as well as the Mr. Gum series (Stanton), he won over teenagers with translations of the bestsellers The Fault in Our Stars (Green), Wonder (Palacio) and Eleanor & Park (Rowell) and he transported grownups to the bloody fantasy world of A Song of Ice and Fire (Martin). For the translation of the novel Good Omens (Gaiman, Pratchett) he was listed on the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honour List in 2012.
He has published four comic books about the Šnofi group (Šnofijeva druščina) with Matej de Cecco, which have been making readers of the Pil youth magazine laugh since 2008. sLOLvene Classics 1 (sLOLvenski klasiki 1), which in 2016 won the Book of the Year Award at the Slovene book fair and which have been sold in 12.000 copies, are his solo debut. He has created the picture books What is Hiding in Papa’s Beard (Kaj se skriva očku v bradi), Have You Ever Tasted the Moon? (Si že kdaj pokusil luno?) and Have You Ever Ridden a Seahorse? (Si že kdaj jezdil morskega konjička?) with Igor Šinkovec and Benefactor’s Gift (Botrovo darilo) with Ana Razpotnik Donati. With Tanja Komadina he created the comic My Life (Moj lajf) based on the literary sketch collection Moje življenje by Ivan Cankar, which also saw a theatre adaptation for the Maribor Puppet Theatre by Sebastijan Horvat. Together with Jaka Vukotič and the help of dr. Kozma Ahačič, they captured the lives of Adam Bohorič and Jurij Dalmatin in the comic Reformers in Comic Form (Reformatorji v stripu), which served as basis for the play Reformers on the Stage (Reformatorji na odru), where Pižama plays together with Nik Škrlec. He has also collaborated with Jaka Vukotič on the book The Mighty Lynx (Huda risinja). Boštjan Gorenc also does stand-up comedy and podcasts. At home he has two Apple of Inspiration Awards on his shelf, given to him by the former president Borut Pahor: one for the sLOLvene Classics 1 and another for his collaboration on the Cankar in Comic Form project.
