Jernej Županič (born 1982) is a Slovenian writer and translator. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at university. His debut collection of poems titled ''Tatar'' (2016) was widely acclaimed and won multiple literary awards, including the

Jenko Award The Jenko Award ( sl, Jenkova nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best poetry collection in Slovene published in the previous two years. It has been bestowed since 1986 by the Slovene Writers' Association. It is name ...

. He has published two novels to date: ''Mammoths'' (''Mamuti'', 2018) and ''Behemoth'' (''Behemot'', 2019). He is also a prize-winning translator of English-language writers such as Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace,

Taiye Selasi Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. Early life and education Taiye Selasi was born in Lond ...

, Dave Eggers, Lydia Davis, and

C.D. Wright Carolyn D. Wright (January 6, 1949 – January 12, 2016) was an American poet. She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. Background C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, to a chancery ju ...

. He has won the Radojka Vrančič Award multiple times for his translations.Bio
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