Jasmin Frelih (born 1986) is a Slovenian writer, editor and translator. [1] He was born in Kranj, Slovenia, in 1986. He studied literature at the University of Ljubljana.
Jasmin Frelih (born 1986) is a Slovenian writer, editor and translator. [1] He was born in Kranj, Slovenia, in 1986. He studied literature at the University of Ljubljana.
Frelih's first novel Na/pol appeared in 2013, and won the best literary debut award at the Slovenian Book Fair. It also won the 2016 EU Prize for Literature. In/Half, an English translation by Jason Blake, was published by Oneworld Publications in November 2018 [2]
His first short story collection Ideoluzije (Tiny Ideologies) was published in 2015.
He is an editor of I.D.I.O.T., a literary journal, and his writings and translations have appeared in leading literary magazines in Slovenia. He also translates from Slovenian into English and vice versa.
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