Vinko Möderndorfer is a director, playwright, poet and writer.
Born in 1958. Graduated in theatre direction from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana with the performance The Proposal by A. P. Chekov in 1982.
He directs in the theatre and the opera, as well as on the television and radio. In the last thirty years he directed more than 100 theatre and opera performances. In the period from 1992 to 2010 he directed 15 TV plays and documentaries that he himself wrote the scripts for.
He writes dramas, poems (also for children), novellas, novels, TV and film scripts, radio plays for children and adults.
He received several awards, among them the Borštnik Award for best director (1986) for the performance Potujoče gledališče Šopalovič (The Šopalovič Travelling Theatre), the Župančič Award of the city of Ljubljana (1994) for the collection of novellas Krog male smrti (Circle of Small Death); for the book of novellas Nekatere ljubezni (Some Loves) he received the award of the Prešeren’s fund for the year 2000; he received the first prize at the anonymous competition of Radio Slovenia and WDR (1994) for his radio play for adults Pokrajina (The Landscape); the Rožanc Award (2002) for best collections of essays Gledališče v ogledalu (A Mirror to Theatre) and many others.
