Miloš Mikeln
Miloš Mikeln was a Slovene writer, playwright, theatre director and journalist. He served as the president of Slovene PEN and was the initiator of the Writers for Peace Committee, founded in 1984. He was the Committee chairman for the first decade of its existence. The Committee still continue to operate within the fold of PEN International to this day, providing a platform for literary and intercultural dialogue and understanding.
Life
Mikeln was born Alojz Martin Mikeln in Celje in 1930. He attended school in Celje until 1947 when he moved to Ljubljana where he first studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and in 1952 enrolled at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television.Throughout his career he worked in theatres in Kranj and Ljubljana, as an editor at the newspapers Delo and Naši razgledi and as Director of the Cankarjeva založba publishing house.In 1993 he received the Kresnik Award for his novel Veliki voz. In 1995 he was given the Silver Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia for his work with Writers for Peace.