The Tree with No Name

Jancar, today the leading writer of contemporary Slovenian prose, was born in Maribor, Slovenia. A former president of the Slovenian PEN Center and a winner of the Preseren Foundation Award, he is currently an editor of the New Review.

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.