Goran Vojnovi? is a Slovenian writer, poet, screenwriter and film director of Croatian origin. He is best known for his 2008 novel Southern Scum Go Home which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of Interior. Vojnovi? was born in Ljubljana. He studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. He published his first collection of poetry Lep je ta svet in 1998. His novel ?efurji raus! started out as an unfinished film script. It describes life of immigrant youth in the Fu?ine estate in Ljubljana, their everyday problems and cultural differences between locals and immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. For it he won the Pre?eren Foundation Award and the Kresnik Award in 2009. It has been translated and published in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian and excerpts translated into German and English. 

June 11th, 1980 in Ljubljana (Age 44)