The history of Slovene fairy-tale telling is almost hundred fifty years long. In the middle of
the 19th century male and female fairy-tale tellers synchronously participated in the European
currents. At that time female authors were in minority in Slovenia; in the period between
the two world wars, however, they were already almost equal to men regarding numbers,
while the period from 1950–1980 was marked by considerable feminization of fairy-tale telling.
Special credit in this respect goes to Kristina Brenk as an author, translator and editor at
the publishing house Mladinska knjiga, who initiated an internationally innovative project, a
fairy-tale collection Zlata ptica. In contemporary time, especially after 1990, not only Slovenia
but also Europe have been witnessing a kind of fairy-tale telling renaissance, fuelled by
European integration processes. In the time of contemporary Slovene literature (after 1980)
fairy-tale was also a subject of considerable research attention.
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