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Ales Steger
is a poet and critic. He has published four volumes of poetry: Sahovnice ur [Chess boards of hours] (1995); Kasmir [Kashmir] (1997); Protuberance [Protuberances] (2002); Knjiga reci [Book of Things] (2005); a prose book Peru Vcasih je januar sredi poletja [January In the Middle of Summer] [1999]; and Berlin in 2007. His books have been translated into several languages. He lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Literary perspectives: Slovenia
A hollowed-out generation
Slovenian novelists are developing original responses to the experience of transitional society, writes poet and critic Ales Steger. While male novelists take a hyper-realist, social-critical approach, their female counterparts are creating fictions only loosely connected to contemporary time and space. But first, an excursus into the Slovenian booktrade's current fad: the self-help manual... [more]
Poems
Even now you peddle the story of the Turks/At the gates of Vienna, dismantling their tents only as a ruse/And how masquerading as kebab vendors/Even now they're only waiting for the right moment/To leap out from their kiosks and cut your throats. [more]