Miklavž Komelj

Miklavž Komelj (born 10 July 1973) is a Slovene poet and art historian.^[1]

Miklavž Komelj
Born	(1973-07-10) 10 July 1973 (age 51) Kranj, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupation	Art historian and poet
Notable works	Rosa, Nenaslovljiva imena, Hipidrom
Notable awards	Veronika Award 2002 for Rosa Prešeren Foundation Award 2010 for Nenaslovljiva imena Jenko Award 2006 for Hipodrom Rožanc Award 2011 for Nujnost poezije

Komelj was born in Kranj in 1973. He studied History of Art at the University of Ljubljana and started publishing poetry in 1991.

In 2006 he won the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Hipodrom^[2] and in 2010 the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Nenaslovljiva imena.^[3] In 2011 he received the Rožanc Award for Nujnost poezije.

Poetry collections

• Luč delfina (1991)
• Jantar časa (1995)
• Rosa (2002)
• Hipodrom (2006)
• Nenaslovljiva imena (2008)

Modra obleka (2011) Roke v dežju (2011) Noč je abstraktnejša kot N (2014)

• Minima impossibilia (2016)

Liebestod (2017) 11 (2018) Stigmatizacija (2019) Goreča knjiga (2020)

Books of prose

Sovjetska knjiga (2012) Larvae (2019) Skrij me, sneg (2021)

Book of essays

Nujnost poezije (2010)

References

1. "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Archived from the original on 19 September 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
2. Najlepše verze kujeta Osti in Komelj (Osti and Komelj Strike Best Verses), RTV Slovenija, 14 December 2006)
3. Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients^{[permanent dead link‍]}

https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/ancient-modern-racetracks-an-interview-with-translator-dan-rosenberg-on-miklavz-komeljs-hippodrome-conducted-by-zach-savich/