Aleš Šteger is a poet, essayist, and novelist, writing in Slovenian.
Šteger’s books have been translated into 16 languages and his poems appeared in international renown magazines and newspapers as The New Yorker, Die Zeit, TLS and many others.
Aleš received the title »Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres« from the French State. He is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Besides writing and translating from German and Spanish, Aleš is also the programming director of Beletrina academic Press that he co-funded.