Jernej Zupančič

Jernej Zupančič

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PlacesSlovenia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
isGeographer Professor Educator
Work fieldAcademia Science
Gender
Male
Birth3 August 1963
Age61 years
Star signLeo
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Biography

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.

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