Ana Javornik, a soon-to-be law student, delighted the school community this summer with some joyful news. She took part in the international literary competition Energheia submitting her short story entitled “The Burning Sea”. The above mentioned competition sellects the best short story written by young people aged 18 to 30 from various countries. The best stories are translated into Italian, and from among them a panel of experts—composed of distinguished Italian writers and literary critics—selects the winning story for each country.

Ana wrote a stylistically and thematically polished unputdownable short story. Through fragments, the story of a physics teacher unfolds—a man who wants to take revenge on the sea. He decides that the sea must burn. “Not just burn—burn up completely; nothing must remain except charred dead fish and piles of scorched salt.” But how? The entire school community is proud of Ana’s international litarary success! /Erika Komatar, teacher of Slovene language and lieterature at DCG/