Jani Virk (born 4 March 1962) is a Slovene writer, poet, translator and editor. He writes poetry, short stories, essays, novels and scripts and translates from German into Slovene. Virk was born in

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in 1962. He studied at the German and

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at the

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. During his studies, he worked in Chicago, London and Germany as a manual worker. In his youth, he trained for the Yugoslavian National Ski Team and he briefly worked as a ski coach. Later, he worked as an editor at the ''Literatura'' literary journal, the newspaper ''Slovenec'' and at the national broadcasting house. From 2010, he is the editor of the Drama department at RTV Slovenia. In 1999 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his collection of short stories Pogled na Tycho Brache (A View of Tycho Brahe).Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients
In 2014, he completed a Doctorate Degree in German studies, where he researched the theme of the Middles Ages in film and literature.

Published works

Short stories

* ''Preskok'' (The Jump Over), 1987 * ''Vrata in druge zgodbe'' (The Door and Other Stories), 1991 * ''Moški nad prepadom'' (Man Above the Abyss), 1994 * ''Izza potresa:novele'' (From Behind the Earthquake), 1995 (with Lela B. Njatin and

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) * ''Pogled na Tycho Brache'' (A View of Tycho Brahe), 1998 * ''Med drevesi'' (Among the Trees), 2016 * ''Metulj v jantarju'' (Butterfly in the amber), 2023

Poetry

* ''Tečeva čez polje'' (We Run Across the Field), 1990

Essay Collection

* ''Na robu resničnosti'' (On the Edge of Reality), 1992

Novels

* ''Rahela'' (Rachel), 1989 * ''1895, potres:kronika nenadejane ljubezni'' (1895, Earthquake: A Chronicle of an Unexpected Love), 1995 * ''Zadnja Sergijeva skušnjava'' (Sergij's Final Temptation), 1996 * ''Smeh za leseno pregrado'' (Laughter From Beyond the Wooden Barrier), 2000 * '' Aritmija'' (Arrhythmia), 2004 * ''Ljubezen v zraku'' (Love in the Air), 2009 * ''Kar je odnesla reka, kar je odnesel dim'' (What the River Swept Away, What Was Carried Away by Smoke), 2012 * ''Brez imena'' (No Name), 2018 * ''Jaka in Vane, zgodba iz osemdesetih'' (Jaka and Vane, A Story From the Eighties), 2021 * ''Vrnitev domov'' (Coming back home) 2023

For Young Readers

* ''Regata'' (Regata), 1995 (in Bosnian, translated by

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) * ''Poletje na snegu'' (Summer on the Snow), 2003 Awards * Lake Balaton TV festival, Best script, ''Vaški učitelj'', 1995 *

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, Best script nomination for ''Vaški učitelj'', 1995 * The Prešeren Foundation Award, 1999 * Pazin International Publishers' Award, 2000 * Njegoš Award (Montenegrin International Award) nomination, ''Med drevesi,'' 2017 * Župančič Award, ''Med drevesi,'' 2018

References

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