Errors of Young Tjaz

Florjan Lipu was born in 1937 in the village of Lobnik (Lobnig), in Austrian Carinthia. Since the 1960 he has been one of the foremost proponents of Carinthian Slovene literature and its leading prose writer. He is the author of four novels and six book-length collections of short fiction and essays in Slovene. In 2004, he was awarded the Pre eren Prize, Slovenia's most prestigious award for lifelong literary achievement.

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.