London Book Festival Award-Winner

The 2009 London Book Festival has selected Jacqueline Widmar Stewart's new book Finding Slovenia:  A Guide to Old Europe's New Country as runner-up in its annual competition honoring the best of international publishing.  Awards are based on general excellence, the author's passion for telling a good story and the potential of the work to gain a wider audience in the worldwide market.   The awards ceremony will be held in London on January 21, 2010.      

Finding Slovenia also was selected as Finalist in the National Best Books 2009 Awards Travel  Category by USA Book News.

Fleeing imperial Austria before the scourge of two world wars, the author's grandparents never could have imagined their small homeland as a free country. In her book Stanford-educated attorney Jacqueline Widmar Stewart  portrays the natural and cultural history of this green gem, long hidden away in Central Europe. Within the space of two generations the stunningly beautiful little land has lifted itself from a feudalistic past to lead the European Union as an independent nation.

Finding Slovenia: A Guide to Old Europe's New Country by Jacqueline Widmar Stewart, was published on September 22, 2009, by Mladinska knjiga of Ljubljana, Slovenia.  Ms. Stewart first book, entitled The Glaciers' Treasure Trove:  A Field Guide to the Lake Michigan Riviera, explores the history and culture of five parks at the Lake's southern tip, including the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

For more information please see www.lexicuspress.com and http://londonbookfestival.com