Aleš Debeljak

Aleš Debeljak (* 1961 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) is a Slovenian writer, poet and editor.

Debeljak studied philosophy, comparative literature and sociology in his native city and in Syracuse. With his American wife Erica Johnson and his three children, he lives in Ljubljana. There he taught at the University Cultural Studies.

Debeljak defines itself as a socially critical essayist and poet.

Awards

Debeljak won the Prešeren Award, this is the Slovenian national Book Award, the Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize -Tel Aviv and the Chiqyu Poetry Prize, Tokyo.

Works

Debeljaks books have been translated into English, Japanese, German, Croatian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak and Italian. Besides his own works Debeljak is also known as a publisher. He is the editor of the " Terra Inkognita: Writings from Central Europe " series of White Pine Press.

Works in German language

  • Destruction of the idols, ISBN 3-85129-106-9, Wieser Verlag
  • In search of the lost paradise, Wieser Verlag, ISBN 3-85129-415-7

Works in English

  • The City and the Child, ISBN 1-877727-99-7, White Pine Press
  • Selected Essays, ISBN 9989-59-294-2, Blesok
  • Anxious Moments, ISBN 1-877727-35-0, White Pine Press
  • Dictionary of Silence, ISBN 0-930829 -45 X, Lumen Books
  • Individualism and Metaphors of Nation, ISBN 0-7425-1780-2, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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