Feri Lainšček (born 5 October 1959) is a Slovenian writer, poet, and screenwriter.

[1] He was born Franc Lainšček in a Slovene Lutheran family in the village of Dolenci (part of Šalovci), in northeastern Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

[2] Since the 1990s, he has been living and working in the town of Murska Sobota in his native Prekmurje region.

[4] In the parliamentary elections of 2008, Lainšček ran for the Slovenian National Assembly for the social liberal party Zares.

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