ISBN 9989-59-092-3

Iztok Osojnik, poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, artist, tour director, mountain climber. Born on July 27, 1951 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Graduated in Comparative Literature from the University of  Ljubljana (1977). Postgraduate studies at Osaka Gaidai University (1980-82). At present Director of international literary festival Vilenica. Published 16 books of poetry and 3 novels. He also publishes essays on literature, anthropology, and philosophy. In last years an autobiographical novel The Story of Mr. Pirjevec and Me, and two books of poetry Spleen of Berlin and Darkness of July were published. He translated (poetry) from Chinese, English, Spanish and Croatian. His poems were published in English, Croatian, French, Italian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Malay, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and German. Two books of poetry in English:, Alluminations (City Gallery of Arts of Ljubljana) and a collection of poetry And Some Things Happen for the First Time (Modry Peter, Canada 2001) and two chap books: Shepherd of Silence, and New Born Stars – together with Uroš Zupan (Miscellany Poetry, UT). For his work he was awarded with Jenko (1997 the best book of poetry award), Veronika (1998 – the poetry book of the year) and Župančič (1992 – the town of Ljubljana) awards. In 2000 he was the fellow of Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary English Writers. And in 2001 the fellow of Goethe Institut in Berlin.

e-mail: Iztok.Osojnik@guest.arnes.si