Tomo Virk (born 31 May 1960) is a Slovene

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and

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. Virk was born in

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in 1960. He studied

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and

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at the

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and works as a lecturer at the University.University of Ljubljana Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
He was head of the Jury for the

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between 2004 and 2007. In 1996 he received the Rožanc Award for his book of literary essays ''Ujetniki bolečine'' (Prisoners of Pain).

Published works

* ''Duhovna zgodovina'' (A Spiritual History), 1989 * ''Postmoderna in »mlada slovenska proza«'' (Post-modern or Young Slovene Prose), 1991 * ''Kratka zgodovina večnosti'' (A Short History of Eternity), 1993 * ''Bela dama v labirintu: idejni svet J. L. Borgesa'' (The White Lady in a Labyrinth: the Conceptual Words of J L Borges), 1994 * ''Ujetniki bolečine'' (Prisoners of Pain), 1995 * ''Tekst in kontekst: eseji o sodobni slovenski prozi'' (Text and Context : Essays on Contemporary Slovene Prose), 1997 * ''Premisleki o sodobni slovenski prozi'' (Thoughts on Contemporary Slovene Prose), 1998 * ''Moderne metode literarne vede in njihove filozofsko teoretske osnove: metodologija 1'' (Modern Literary Methods and their Philosophical and Theoretical Bases: Methodology 1), 1999, 2003, 2008 * ''Strah pred naivnostjo: poetika postmodernistične proze'' (Fear of Naivety: The Poetics of Postomodernist Prose), 2000 * ''Primerjalna književnost na prelomu tisočletja: kritični pregled'' (Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Millennium: A Critical Overview), 2007 * ''Izleti čez mejo: razprave o evropski in latinskoameriški prozi'' (Trips Across the Border: Discussions on European and Latin American Prose), 2008

References

Slovenian literary critics Slovenian essayists Slovenian translators Living people 1960 births University of Ljubljana alumni University of Ljubljana faculty {{slovenia-writer-stub