Poet and writer Aleš Šteger is the programme director of the publishing house Beletrina. His collections of poems, novels, essays and short stories have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Among the Slovenian and foreign awards he has received are the Veronika Award (1998), the Rožanc Award (2007), the Poet’s Scepter (Macedonia, 2006), an award for the best translated work (USA, 2011), the Horst Bienek Prize (Germany, 2016), the Pretnar Prize (2021), the Alfred Kolleritsch Prize awarded by the city of Graz (Austria, 2021) and the international Spycher Literary Prize (Switzerland, 2022). Štegra has received the title “chavalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres” from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of France. He has been a full member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 2014 and the German Academy of Literature and Language since 2018.
His poetry collections include Knjiga reči (The Book of Things, 2005), Knjiga teles (The Book of Bodies, 2010), Nad nebom pod zemljo (Above the Sky beneath the Earth, 2015), Pričevanje (Testimony, 2020) and Svet je vmes (The World is in Between, 2022), while amongt his published prose works are Včasih je januar sredi poletja (January in the Middle of Summer, 1999), Berlin (2007), Odpusti (Forgive, 2014), Neverend (2017) and Na kraju zapisano (Written on Site, 2023).