Michele Obit

Michele Obit / Miha Obit was born in Ludwigsburg (Germany) in 1966. The family returned to Friuli after two years. He is employed as the editor-in-chief of the bilingual newspaper Novi Matajur. Since 1994, he has organized literary meetings for twenty-four years as part of the Postaja Topolove festival in Benecia. He currently organizes poetry meetings at the SMO museum in San Pietro al Natisone and participates in the organization of the literary event Mittelibro in Cividale.

He has published several poetry collections, including in the Slovenian language (Leta na oknu, Založba tržaškega tiska, 2001, and Marginalia/Marginalije, Kud Prešeren, Lubiana, 2010) and translated into Italian Slovenian poets and writers such as Boris Pahor, Srečko Kosovel, Aleš Šteger, Miha Mazzini, Miljana Cunta, Bronja Žakelj.