Abstract
Drago Jančar (40) is a Yugoslav novelist and playwright who lives in Ljubljana. Since 1987 he has been President of the Slovenian PEN Centre. In the last ten years, he has published two novels, three plays and two books of short stories. His controversial observations on the cultural climate in Yugoslavia are particularly interesting because he is not a censored author. The following is an edited version of his contribution to a recent PEN conference in Bled on ‘The writer as a spiritual minority’.