Four out of five novels nominated for this year's Kresnik Prize contain more or less obvious autobiographic elements, but Miha Mazzini was the most thorough in unravelling moments from his childhood, he was the most profound and uncompromising. Yet his work is a novel, not memoirs, not psychotherapeutic notes, but soul-stirring literature, the jury stated.

"On a formal-material level the author is skilfully playing through autobiographic and fictional elements, romanesque and short story characteristics, he is loosening and dissolving boundaries separating them, while his narrative remains pure literature throughout the novel," the jury expanded their argumentation.
The writer, columnist and screenwriter Mazzini was among the ten nominees for the Kresnik Prize in 2011 with his German Lottery, in 2014 with Paloma negra, and also last year with The Erased.
The nominees shortlisted by the jury were Intimate by Gabriela Babnik, The Wind and the Echo by Štefan Kardoš, Pianist's Touch by Mirt Komel, Childhood by Miha Mazzini, and Picnic by Nataša Sukič. The jury went through 115 works from the year 2015. The award for the best novel of the prevoius year was given for the 26th time.