Cyclist

A melancholic, lonely and at least partly frustrated high school history teacher – known by his last name Kreps – is faced with both the banal everyday life and the weight he is putting on around his waist. He intends to get rid of both with a bicycle. Since he has bought an apartment in the country near the capital, he leads a history club in a nearby nursing home on a part-time basis to help pay his mortgage payments. One evening after a lecture, an old man slips up to him and, almost without explanation, presses a key into his hand. The next morning, the old man is murdered. Kreps is visited by criminal inspector Petek, and thus he begins to get involved, and soon to unravel, a series of events that lead the protagonist along the trail of unusually vividly described human destinies experienced during World War II.

"Radmilovič creates a genre that requires broad-mindedness and education, and we can certainly count him among the authors who still possess inner freedom and a great sense of self-irony."-(from the justification for the Ježek Award).Hardcover, 21 x 14.5, 432 pages.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:After a typical pilgrimage from the Styrian countryside to Ljubljana, Marko Radmilovič joined Radio Slovenia in the mid-1980s. At first, he was a journalist on Val 202, but soon he established his passion for documentary in the radio's Documentary and Feuilleton Editorial Department. A series of successful shows opened the doors of television for him, and with his brother Sam he founded the company Kino Svečina, whose filmography today numbers over a hundred titles. Meanwhile, at Val 202, he helped nurture satire and, after the collapse of the show Stergo Ergo, in which he collaborated with Marko Zorko and Mirjam Možgan, he continued independently, with the show Zapisi iz močvirja. For it, he received the Ježek Award. He lives in his native Svečina, and Kolesar is his debut novel.