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Vid Bešter (1996) is a critic, journalist, radio presenter, and editor. Between 2016 and 2019, he studied Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He was active in the Comparative Literature Student Association and as a member of the editorial board of the student magazine Zamenjave. He has been active as a critic in various publications since 2016, when he was also selected in the Young Critics competition at the Pranger Festival. In addition to literary criticism, he also occasionally writes theater and art critics. Since 2017, he has been a contributor to the editorial team for culture and humanities. Between 2018 and 2022, he was co-editor of the translated prose program Tu pa tam. He directed three radio plays: Conversations about Melancholy by Saša Ćirić (2020), Fračo by Russian playwright Nikolai Kolyada (2022), and Pridigar iz mesta v puščavi (2025). In the radio sub-section Spiritual Thought of the Day, he edited the translation of the book My Beloved Russia by Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko. He served two consecutive terms (2020-2024) as editor of the culture and humanities section, and then (2024-2026) as editor-in-chief of Radio Študent.
