Born in Serbia in 1953, Boris A. Novak is a poet, playwright, editor, essayist, and translator of Bosnian, British, American, French, Provencal, Italian, and German poetry into Slovenian. He has also written for children and published works of literary criticism. He is considered one of the most important living Slovenian poets, and has more then fifty-three books to his name. He is a Professor at the Department for Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana.
Michael Biggins’s translations of works by Slovene authors such as Drago Jančar, Tomaž Šalamun, Vladimir Bartol, and Lojze Kovačič have been published by Harcourt, Archipelago and Dalkey Archive, among others. In 2015 he was awarded the Lavrin Diploma of the Society of Slovene Literary Translators for distinguished contributions to the advancement of Slovene literature in English. He lives in Seattle.