Mojca Volkar Trobevšek
Mojca Volkar Trobevšek (1981) is a graduate in comparative literature and a professor of the Slovenian language working as a Slovenian language teacher, editor, moderator, publicist, and author. She does research and writes scripts for documentary films for Slovenian national television and other producers. She’s co-authored and edited various biographies and other works on Slovenian alpinism, its history and protagonists. She writes for Planinski vestnik (a Slovenian mountaineering magazine) and designs cultural events, and recently she’s been focusing on moderating book clubs and discussions, as well as writing. She’s particularly interested in mountains and the people connected to them. She’s worked with the Festival gorniškega filma since 2008 and has served as a jury member at festivals in Ljubljana, Graz, and Tegernsee. She has a very close connection to the mountains; she used to be an alpinist and a climber and has dedicated much of her time to educating young mountaineers as a voluntary mountain guide and ski instructor. Together with her husband and three sons, she lives and works at the foot of the Kamnik Alps.