Psychoporn
"Psychoporn" is a collection of short and very short stories, with which Davorin Lenko opens a new chapter in his literary and creative pursuits.
As the title suggests, the stories deal with reality, with the flesh, as well as with the spiritual and transcendent dimension of sexuality. But this time, not with the demonstration of sexuality itself, but with a "conversation about sexuality". The texts collected in the second collection of the author's short prose are structured as pure dialogues or, more precisely, statements, sometimes approaching the subject of the conversation in an essayistic way and roughening it, and at other times for a moment unfolding it almost poetically.
In "Psychoporn" Lenko appears as a master of dialogue, managing without any "comments" to draw a scene, create a mood and build complex, either humanly vulnerable or "animal" charismatic characters.
This project has been funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
Davorin Lenko
Davorin Lenko is a Slovene writer, poet and playwright. He studied comparative literature at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana where he graduated in 2012. He is the author of five books of prose.
In 2014, he received the Kresnik Award for the best novel of the year for Telesa v temi (Bodies in the Dark) as well as the Critic’s Choice Award. The novel was also translated into German by the Slovene Writers’ Association. His 2016 collection of short stories Postopoma zapuščati Misantropolis (Gradually Leaving Misantropolis) was nominated for the Novo Mesto Short award. In 2017 he published the novel Bela pritlikavka (White Dwarf) and in 2019, the monodrama Psiho (Psycho), for which Lenko wrote the script, was staged in Ljubljana.
In 2020 he published his fourth book, Psihoporn (Psychoporn), a collection of short stories, written entirely in dialogues. Psihoporn was shortlisted for the 2021 EUPL award.
In 2021 he published his third novel Triger (Trigger) that was shortlisted for Kresnik award. In 2023 he published his first poetry collection Razpoke (The Cracks) and a biography of Slovene director, actor and humorist, Boris Kobal, entitled 100 km (100 Kilometers).
