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Awards
  
Preseren Fund Award

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Jani Virk


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Born
  
4 March 1962 Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) (
1962-03-04
)

Occupation
  
writer, poet, translator and editor

Notable awards
  
Preseren Foundation Award 1999 for Pogled na Tycho Brache

Books
  
Smeh za leseno pregrado, A View of Tycho Brahe, Aritmija

Similar People
  
Andrej Blatnik, Feri Lainscek, Milan Vincetic, Igor Zabel

Notable works
  
Pogled na Tycho Brache

Education
  
University of Ljubljana

Jani Virk (born 4 March 1962) is a Slovene writer, poet, translator and editor. He writes poetry, short stories, essays, novels and scripts and translates from German into Slovene.

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Virk was born in Ljubljana in 1962. He studied at the German and Comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. He worked as an editor at the Literatura literary journal and the newspaper Slovenec and at the national broadcasting house.

In 1999 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his collection of short stories Pogled na Tycho Brache (A View of Tycho Brahe).

Short Stories

  • Preskok (The Jump Over), 1987
  • Vrata in druge zgodbe (The Door and Other Stories), 1991
  • Moški nad prepadom (Man Above the Abyss), 1994
  • Izza potresa:novele (From Behind the Earthquake), 1995 (with Lela B. Njatin and Jože Hudeček)
  • Pogled na Tycho Brache (A View of Tycho Brahe), 1998

    • Poetry

  • Tečeva čez polje (We Run Across the Field), 1990

    • Essay Collection

  • Na robu resničnosti (On the Edge of Reality), 1992

    • Novels

  • Rahela (Rachel), 1989
  • 1895, potres:kronika nenadejane ljubezni (1895, Earthquake: A Chronicle of an Unexpected Love), 1995
  • Zadnja Sergijeva skušnjava (Sergij's Final Temptation), 1996
  • Smeh za leseno pregrado (Laughter From Beyond the Wooden Barrier), 2000
  • Aritmija (Arrhythmia), 2004
  • Ljubezen v zraku (Love in the Air), 2009
  • Kar je odnesla rekla, kar je odnesel dim (What the River Swept Away, What Was Carried Away by Smoke), 2012

    • For Young Readers

  • Regata (Regata), 1995 (in Bosnian, translated by Josip Osti)
  • Poletje na snegu (Summer on the Snow), 2003

    • References

    Jani Virk Wikipedia
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