Aleš Debeljak is the author of thirteen books of essays and eight volumes of poetry, including most recently Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems. He has won numerous awards, including the Prešeren Foundation Prize (the Slovenian National Book Award) and the Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize (Tel Aviv), and teaches at universities throughout Europe and the United States. He lives in Slovenia, where he is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana.
