Peter Semolič, born in Ljubljana in 1967, studied General Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry. He has received many prizes for his work, including the two most eminent awards in Slovenia, Jenko’s Poetry Prize and the Prešeren Fundation Award. In 1998 he also won the Vilenica Crystal Award and in 2016 the Velenjica award for »10 years of outstanding poetic work«. Peter Semolič also writes plays, children’s literature, essays and translates from English, French, Serbian and Croatian. He is co-founder and chef editor of first Slovenian online poetry magazine Poiesis (http://www.poiesis.si/).
