ALEŠ ŠTEGER
Aleš holds degrees in Comparative Literature and German from the University of Ljubljana.
He was one of the initiators of the international poetry festival Days of Poetry and Wine (www.medana.org), held in Medana, Slovenia. He currently works as a free-lance writer and editor of the theory-series Koda in Ljubljana.
Publications in Slovenian
Šahovnice ur, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, 1995. (poetry)
Kašmir, Nova revija, Ljubljana, 1997. (poetry)
Včasih je januar sredi poletja, Študentska založba, Ljubljana, 1999. (novel)
Protuberance, Študentska založba, Ljubljana, 2002. (poetry)
Kamen, Študentska založba, Ljubljana, 2005. (CD with a selection of poems, music by Peter N. Gruber and pictures by Dušan Fišer)
Knjiga reči, Študentska založba, Ljubljana 2005. (poetry)
Ptujska knjiga. Slovenska matica, Ljubljana 2006. (anthology of texts about the town Ptuj)
Berlin, Študentska založba, Ljubljana 2007. (prose and photography)
S prsti in peto: O prostorih, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana 2009. (essays)
Knjiga teles, Študentska založba, Ljubljana 2010. (poetry)
Publications in other languages
1996 Solitude, Translated by Uroš Mozetič, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
2000 Kašmir, Translated by Karol Chmel, Drewo a srd, Bratislava, Slovak Rep.
2001 Kaschmir, Translated by Gerhard Falkner, Edition Korrespondenzen, Wien, Austrija
2001 Regreso a casa, Translated by Pablo Fajdiga, Beletrina, Ljubljana (in Spanish)
2002 Leden je nĕkdy uprostřed léta, Translated by.Brantišek Benhart, Vetrny Mlyny, Brno, Chech Rep.
2003 Protuberance, Translated by Brantišek Benhart, Drevo a srd, Bratislava, Slovak Rep.
2003 Protuberance, Translated by Edo Fičor, Meandar, Zagreb, Croatia
2003 Protuberance, Translated by Stefka Husarova, PAN, Sofia, Bulgaria
2005 Protuberancias, Translated by Špela Markič and Pablo Fajdiga, Ediciones Arlequín, Guadalajara, Mexico
2005 Poezija Apsimoka Translated by Aura Aurite and Laurinas Katkus, Vario Burnos, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Protuberancia, Translated by Roland Orczik, Veszprem, Szeged, Hungary
2006 Buch der Dinge, Translated by Urška P. Černe and Matthias Goeritz, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a M., Germany
2006 Pesme, Translated by Bistrica Mirkulovska, Društvo pisaca Makedonije, Skopje, Macedonien
2006 Zu zweit nirgendwo, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (as Co-editor)
2006 Knjiga rijeći, Translated by Josip Osti, Bosanska rijeć, Tuzla, Bosnia
2006 Libro de las cosas, Translated by Pablo Juan Fajdiga, Oscar Leonel Ramirez and Špela Markič and Casa de la Poesia, Costa Rica
2007 Katkad je siječanj usred ljeta, Translated by Edo Fičor, Meandar, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 Geburt eines Engels, (co-author), several translators, Wunderhorn, Mainz, Germany
Translations of other authors into Slovenian
1997 Gottfried Benn »Dvojno življenje« (Double life), Beletrina, Ljubljana
2000 selected poems of Michael Donhauser in: “Meridiani”, Beletrina, Ljubljana
2002 selected poems of Peter Huchel in: “Pod koreniko osata”, Litera, Maribor
2004 selected poems of Pablo Neruda in: Pablo Neruda: Lirika, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana
2004 selection of poems of Edvard Kocbek and afterword in: Edvard Kocbek: “Tudi čez ta prepad moram”. Litera, Maribor.
2006 selected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann in: Ingeborg Bachmann: Razloži, ljubi, Mohorjeva, Celovec.
Work Experience
1995 - 1997 Cultural editor of the magazine »Tribuna«
1996 ÖAAD fellowship, Wienna
1996-2004 Co-founder and programme director of the international poetry festival »Days of Poetry and Wine« in Medana, Slovenia (www.medana.org)
1999-present Editor of the theory edition »Koda« published by Študentska založba in Ljubljana
2000 one of the Slovenian representativs in the “Literatureexpress Europe 2000”
2000 Stipend of the Preusische Seehandlung in Literarisches Colloquium in Berlin
2000 Abraham Woursell Stipend
2001 Writers fellowship in Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Writers stipend of the Literaturhaus Krems, Austria
2004 DAAD-Writers stipend, Berlin
several journeys (among others to Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Equador, India, Yemen), participation on more than 200 readings, festivals, round tables, conferences in the last ten years
Awards
1996 “Nagrada Slovenskega knjižnega sejma” for “Šahovnice ur”, Award of the National book fair in Ljubljana for the best first book of the last two years
1998 “Veronikina nagrada” for “Kašmir”, Veronika prize for the best Slovenian poetry volume of the year
1999 “Petrarch” Prize for young European authors«
2006 “Književno žezlo” International award for poetry given by the Writers association of Macedonia
2007 “Rožančeva nagrada” for “Berlin”, national award for best book of essays written in Slovenian in the last year