Aleš Debeljak

Aleš Debeljak, one of the leading Central European poets, published eight books of essays and six books of poems in his native Slovenian. His books of poems in English translation include Anxious Moments (1994), Dictionary of Silence (1999) and The City and the Child (1999). His non-fiction books include Twilight of the Idols: Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia (1994) and Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms (1998) and a comprehensive anthology The Imagination of Terra Incognita: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (1997) which he edited. A translator of a book of selected poems by John Ashbery and of a book on sociology of knowledge, he also edited an anthology of American metafiction and published a book of essays on American literature. He won the Preseren Foundation Prize (Slovenian National Book Award) and Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize-Tel Aviv and Chiqyu Poetry Prize, Tokyo.

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