Aljaž Koprivnikar: Photo © Robert Carrithers

Aljaž Koprivnikar (1987), poet and literary critic, was born on a late April night in Ljubljana. As a literary critic he co-operates with various Slovenian and international literary magazines and webpages.. His poetry has been published in Slovenian, as well as international literary magazines and anthologies, and was translated to Croatian, Czech, German, Greek, English, and Serbian. Currently he is divided between several cities; Ljubljana, Berlin and Prague. To the first he returns to Slovenian literature and co-organizes the international critical symposium The Art of criticism, in the second together with the Slovenian Cultural Center, he prepares the Anthology of Young Slovenian Literature in German translation, in the third, as the Program Director, he leads the International Literary Festival Microfestival and at the same time also conducting his doctoral studies.