Who Is Milena?
Who Is Milena? In the late 1980s, Milena Miklavčič (born 1952) began working at Radio Sora. By her own account, this was one of the most creatively vibrant periods of her life. Even then, she was fascinated by how people in Slovenia had lived in earlier times, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on Slovenian sexual customs—subjects that were, and remain, taboo in public debate. Her first stories appeared on the popular radio programme Interesting People Live Among Us . After little more than a year, they grew into a serial entitled Destinies in the newspaper Gorenjski glas , where it continues to appear today. Some experts told her not to delve into sexual detail, yet it was always precisely the forbidden that fascinated her. ‘The silence surrounding sex was, and still is, a form of omertà,’ Milena Miklavčič says. That she managed to break it was, in its way, something of a miracle. Even today, there is little or no discussion of sex ...