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Places | Slovenia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
is | Geographer Professor Educator | |
Work field | Academia Science | |
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Birth | 3 August 1963 | |
Age | 61 years | |
Star sign | Leo |
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Jernej Županič (born 1982) is a Slovenian writer and translator.
He studied philosophy and comparative literature at university. His debut collection of poems titled Tatar (2016) was wdidely acclaimed and won multiple literary awards, including the Jenko Award. He has published two novels to date: Mammoths (Mamuti, 2018) and Behemoth (Behemot, 2019). He is also a prize-winning translator of English-language writers such as Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Taiye Selasi, Dave Eggers, Lydia Davis, and C.D. Wright. He has won the Radojka Vrančič Award multiple times for his translations.