Tomo Virk (born 31 May 1960) is a Slovene

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and

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. Virk was born in

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in 1960. He studied

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and

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at the

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and works as a lecturer at the University.University of Ljubljana Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
He was head of the Jury for the

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between 2004 and 2007. In 1996 he received the Rožanc Award for his book of literary essays ''Ujetniki bolečine'' (Prisoners of Pain).

Published works

* ''Duhovna zgodovina'' (A Spiritual History), 1989 * ''Postmoderna in »mlada slovenska proza«'' (Post-modern or Young Slovene Prose), 1991 * ''Kratka zgodovina večnosti'' (A Short History of Eternity), 1993 * ''Bela dama v labirintu: idejni svet J. L. Borgesa'' (The White Lady in a Labyrinth: the Conceptual Words of J L Borges), 1994 * ''Ujetniki bolečine'' (Prisoners of Pain), 1995 * ''Tekst in kontekst: eseji o sodobni slovenski prozi'' (Text and Context : Essays on Contemporary Slovene Prose), 1997 * ''Premisleki o sodobni slovenski prozi'' (Thoughts on Contemporary Slovene Prose), 1998 * ''Moderne metode literarne vede in njihove filozofsko teoretske osnove: metodologija 1'' (Modern Literary Methods and their Philosophical and Theoretical Bases: Methodology 1), 1999, 2003, 2008 * ''Strah pred naivnostjo: poetika postmodernistične proze'' (Fear of Naivety: The Poetics of Postomodernist Prose), 2000 * ''Primerjalna književnost na prelomu tisočletja: kritični pregled'' (Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Millennium: A Critical Overview), 2007 * ''Izleti čez mejo: razprave o evropski in latinskoameriški prozi'' (Trips Across the Border: Discussions on European and Latin American Prose), 2008

References

Slovenian literary critics Slovenian essayists Slovenian translators Living people 1960 births University of Ljubljana alumni Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana {{slovenia-writer-stub