Valerija Skrinjar Tvrz

Valerija Skrinjar Tvrz (8 November 1928 – 16 July 2023), also known by her illegal pseudonyms Honorču and Valči, was a Slovene partisan codebreaker, journalist, writer and translator.

Biography Valerija Skrinjar Tvrz was born into a mining family on 8 November 1928 in Zagorje ob Savi, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

At the age of 16, Skrinjar joined the Slovene Partisans,

After the end of World War II, Skrinjar travelled around the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia working as a correspondent for the Serbian state-owned news agency Tanjug. She considered Bosnia her own country. She was the author of the "Dragon's Blood" trilogy of historical novels about Bosnian identity, which cover the medieval period through to World War I and then the Bosnian War (1992–1995). During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Skrinjar fled from Sarajevo to Slovenia with her husband.

Skrinjar died on 16 July 2023 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aged 94.

Legacy Skrinjar was portrayed in the film Breakthrough (2019), directed by Dejan Babosek.