Petra Vidali

Selector of the 51th Maribor Theatre Festival

Critic, essayist and editor. During her studies of Comparative Literature and Sociology of Culture at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, she was theatre critic and editor of the culture section in the student/academic magazine Katedra. Following her graduation, she collaborated with various professional magazines and was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Literatura. When she got a post at the daily Večer (since 1999), theatre became her primary field of interest. Since 2009 she is editor of the culture section.

She has participated as a member of juries for literary awards (Večernica, the Rožanc Award, the Veronika Award, Prešeren Foundation) and theatre awards (Maribor Theatre Festival, Chamber Theatre Festival, Biennale of Puppet Theatre) and as a member of the executive board of the Prešeren Foundation. She has received the Stritar Award for her criticism (1999) and the Glazer Award for her theatre and literary criticism (2004).

In the decade 2004–2014 she was editor of the collection of contemporary foreign literature Babylon and between 2010 and 2014 the collection New Signs, both published by the publishing house Litera. She also authored introductions for various foreign and domestic prose works.