Luka Novak

Luka Novak (August 1, 1963 in Koper) is a Slovenian writer, politician, publisher and TV personality. He is the director of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office.

He studied Comparative Literature, French, Italian and Romance Philology (Universities of Ljubljana, Bonn, Tübingen, 1989–1993), and obtained an MBA in 1997 (IEDC International Business School Bled, 1997). He was a visiting scholar at the University of Tübingen.

An essayist and journalist (Telex, Problemi, Deutsche Welle, Delo) Novak co-founded Vale-Novak Publishers. and is a member of various boards: the Slovenian Book Fair (2002–2011), Maribor as European Capital of Culture 2012, the Slovenian Book Agency. He ran for Mayor of Ljubljana in 2006.

• Kitsch and Music in Milan Kundera, essay, Ljubljana 1985
• Let’s Skip Postmodernism, essay, Ljubljana 1986
• The Vatican in the Ecstasy of Communication, essay on Pope Wojtyla’s philosophy, Ljubljana, 2005
• The Golden Shower or What Men Want, novel, Ljubljana 2008, Toronto 2012
• The Feeling of Spring in Litzirüti, novel, Ljubljana 2012
• Love at First Bite 1 and 2(Contemporary Family Cooking, w Valentina Smej Novak), Ljubljana 2009, 2010
• Simply Slovenian (Modern Slovenian Cookery), Ljubljana 2011
• Ku-Ku Venice, a Cultural and Culinary Guide, Ljubljana 2011
• Stereoptype (feature film, with director Damjan Kozole), 1997
• Love at First Bite (80 TV episodes, w Valentina Smej Novak), 2009–2012