Jasmin Frelih (born 1986) is a

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

n writer, editor and translator. He was born in

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, Slovenia, in 1986. He studied literature at the

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Works

Frelih's first novel ''Na/pol'' appeared in 2013, and won the best literary debut award at the Slovenian Book Fair. It also won the 2016

EU Prize for Literature The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ...

. ''In/Half'', an English translation by Jason Blake, was published by

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in November 2018 His first short story collection ''Ideoluzije'' (''Tiny Ideologies'') was published in 2015. He is an editor of ''I.D.I.O.T.'', a literary journal, and his writings and translations have appeared in leading literary magazines in Slovenia. He also translates from Slovenian into English and vice versa.

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Living people 1986 births Slovenian writers {{Slovenia-writer-stub