| | Alea `teger is a poet, essayist and novelist, writing in Slovenian. Alea belongs to a generation of writers that started to publish right after the fall of Yugoslavia. His first poetry collection `ahovnice ur (1995) was sold out in three weeks after publication and indicated a new generation of Slovenian artists and writers. |
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| | `tegers books have been translated into 16 languages and his poems appeared in internationally renown magazines and newspapers as The New Yorker, Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, TLS and many others. Among other prizes and honours his English translation of Knjiga re
i (Thee Book of Things, BOA Editions, 2010) won two mayor U.S. translation awards (BTBA award and AATSEL). |
| | Besides writing and translating from German and Spanish Alea is also the programme director of Beletrina academic Press that he co-funded (www.studentskazalozba.org). From 1995 to 2004 he was the initiator and programme director of the international poetry festival Days of Poetry and Wine (www.stihoteka.si). He worked also as programme director of the Terminal 12 - programme strand at the Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture. |
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| | Books in Slovenian: |
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| | Poetry: |
| | `ahovnice ur, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, 1995. |
| | Kaamir, Nova revija, Ljubljana, 1997. |
| | Protuberance, `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana, 2002. |
| | Kamen, `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana, 2005. (selection) |
| | Knjiga re
i, `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana 2005. |
| | Knjiga teles, `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana 2010. |
| | Arhiv, Itadakimasu, Ptuj, 2013. (selected poems) |
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| | Prose: |
| | V
asih je januar sredi poletja, `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana, 1999. (novel, travelogue) |
| | Berlin, `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana 2007. (short prose) |
| | Odpusti, Beletrina, Ljubljana, 2014. (novel) |
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| | Essays: |
| | S prsti in peto, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana 2009. |
| | Na kraju zapisano 1 (Ljubljana), `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana 2012. |
| | Na kraju zapisano 2 (Fukushima), `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana, 2013. |
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| | As a editor: |
| | Ptujska knjiga. Slovenska matica, Ljubljana 2006. |
| | Zu zweit nirgendwo. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 2007. |
| | Zdaj pa: Ljubljana, `tudentska zalo~ba, Ljubljana 2010. |
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| | Books of Alea `teger in translation: |
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| 1996 | Solitude, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. |
| 2000 | Kaamir, Drewo a srd, Bratislava. |
| 2001 | Kaschmir, Edition Korrespondenzen, Wien. |
| Regreso a casa, Beletrina, Ljubljana. |
| 2002 | Leden je nkdy uprostYed léta, Vetrny Mlyny, Brno. |
| 2003 | Protuberance, Drevo a srd, Bratislava. |
| Protuberance, Meandar, Zagreb. |
| Protuberance, PAN, Sofia. |
| 2005 | Protuberancias, Ediciones Arlequín, Guadalajara. |
| Poezija Apsimoka, Vario Burnos, Vilnius. |
| 2006 | Protuberancia, Veszprem, Szeged. |
| Buch der Dinge, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a M.. |
| Pesme, Druatvo pisaca Makedonije, Skopje. |
| Knjiga rijei, Bosanska rije, Tuzla. |
| Libro de las cosas, Casa de la Poesia, Costa Rica. |
| 2007 | Katkad je sije
anj usred ljeta, Meandar, Zagreb. |
| 2008 | Geburt eines Engels, (co-author), Wunderhorn, Mainz. |
| 2009 | Preussenpark, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. |
| Berlin, Arhipelag, Beograd. |
| Berlino, Zandonai, Trento. |
| 2010 | Berlin, Meandar, Zagreb. |
| El Guant, Pen Catala, Barcelona. |
| The Book of Things, BOA Editions, Rochester. |
| Aspirin. Poetry East-West, Peking Los Angeles. |
| 2011 | Ponekogaae Januari srede leto. Blesok, Skopje. |
| Berlín. Pre-Textos, Valencia. |
| Edinstvanea obumamec na kam
ka, Sofia. |
| Der Handschuh, Edition Thanhäusser, Ottensheim. |
| 2012 | Buch der Körper, Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main. |
| Odbrani pesmi, Menora, Skopje. |
| 2014 | Einsteinov stolp, IPPH, Beijing. |
| Berlin, Vetrny Mlyny, Brno. |
