Matevž Kos (born 1966) is a Slovene

literary historian The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pie ...

and

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. Kos was born in

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in 1966. He studied

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and

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at the

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and works primarily as a literary critic and essayist and lecturer at the University of Ljubljana.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 1997 he received the

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for his book of literary essays ''Prevzetnost in pristranost'' (Pride and Prejudice).

Published works

* ''Prevzetnost in pristranost : literarni spisi'' (Pride and Prejudice: Literary Essays), 1996 * ''Kritike in refleksije'' (Critiques and Reflections), 2000 * ''Poskusi z Nietzschejem : Nietzsche in ničejanstvo v slovenski literaturi'' (Experiments with Nietzsche: Nietzsche and Nietzschism in Slovene Literature), 2003 * ''Branje po izbiri'' (Reading by Choice), 2004 * ''Fragmenti o celoti: poskusi s slovenskim pesništvom'' (Fragments about a Whole: Experiments with Slovene Poetry), 2007

References

Slovenian literary historians Slovenian essayists Living people 1966 births University of Ljubljana alumni Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana {{slovenia-writer-stub