Aleš Šteger

Ales Steger is a poet, essayist and novelist, writing in Slovenian. He belongs to a generation of writers that started to publish right after the fall of Yugoslavia. Steger's books have been translated into 16 languages and his poems appeared in internationally renowned magazines and newspapers, such as New Yorker, Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, TLS and many others. His English translation of Knjiga reci (Thee Book of Things) won two major U.S. translation awards (BTBA award and AATSEL). Ales received the title Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French State.