141:, primarily storybooks for young people. These mostly include novels about the problems faced by young people growing up today. Among younger children, his series of crime stories for children about agent Žardna. Some of his books have been translated from Slovene into other languages. For his youngest readers he wrote for various Slovene children's magazines including
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that wrote, as he put it, "about apparently banal things such as having to pee, throwing up, and masturbation." Slovene juvenile literature experienced a rebirth in the 1980s in part due to Mal's contributions and distanced itself from a moralizing approach to upbringing. Young readers were attracted
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Mal was investigated in 2012 for photographing children without permission at a
Ljubljana elementary school and charges were filed against him. He was charged with possession of child pornography in 2013, and in 2014 he was found guilty and received a 2-year
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227:(Run, Run, My Dog). This is Slovenia's commercially most successful film, with rights having been purchased in over fifty countries. Mal's book
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212:(Autumn Blooms). He wrote several episodes for RTV for the series
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538:"Pisatelj Vitan Mal obtožen zaradi otroške pornografije." 2013.
556:"Vitan Mal obsojen posedovanja pornografskega gradiva." 2014.
502:"Je Vitan Mal oprezal za otroki in jih fotografiral?" 2012.
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Kos, Janko, Ksenija
Dolinar, & Andrej Blatnik. 1996.
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520:"Ubogaj me in lepo ti bo! … Zdaj pa sleci hlače!" 2012.
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316:(St. Sebastian's Shell), 1990
214:Kuhinja pri violinskem ključu
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298:(Happiness on a Leash), 1984
401:(An Unfinished Story), 1999
395:(Ganymede and Others), 1993
376:(Žardna and Thursday), 2006
352:(Double Agent Žardna), 1999
314:Školjka svetega Sebastijana
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268:(My Name is Thomas), 1972
202:Radiotelevizija Slovenija
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368:Žardna in ukradeni angel
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362:Žardna in hiša duhov
350:Dvojni agent Žardna
334:(Fast Faster), 1994
302:Baronov mlajši brat
272:Teci, teci kuža moj
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225:Teci, teci kuža moj
196:Film and television
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387:Za metuljem še Rok
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182:Za metuljem še Rok
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405:Napačna odločitev
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358:(Ziggyanna), 2003
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25:Vitan Mal
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558:Siol.net
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278:Roki Rok
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