Jani Virk


Jani Virk 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 Ljubljana in 1962. He studied at the German and Comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. 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
. 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, 1987Vrata in druge zgodbe, 1991Moški nad prepadom, 1994Izza potresa:novele, 1995 Pogled na Tycho Brache, 1998Med drevesi, 2016Metulj v jantarju, 2023

Poetry

Tečeva čez polje, 1990

Essay Collection

Na robu resničnosti, 1992

Novels

Rahela, 19891895, potres:kronika nenadejane ljubezni, 1995Zadnja Sergijeva skušnjava, 1996Smeh za leseno pregrado, 2000Aritmija, 2004Ljubezen v zraku, 2009Kar je odnesla reka, kar je odnesel dim, 2012Brez imena, 2018Jaka in Vane, zgodba iz osemdesetih, 2021Vrnitev domov 2023

For Young Readers

Regata, 1995 Poletje na snegu, 2003
Awards