Angels Beneath the Surface
A Selection of Contemporary Slovene Fiction
$30.40
- Paperback
190 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2011
Summary
The first Slovene short story collection in well over a decade, Angels Beneath the Surface not only introduces leading Slovene writers such as Miha Mazzini and Maja Novak to new audiences, but also brings several emergent authors to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Important to anyone interested in literary fiction, works in translation, and Central European literatures.
With a per capita publishing rate of more that three times that of the United States, Slov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781556437038 |
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| ISBN-10: | 155643703X |
| Author: | Mitja Cander, Tom Priestly, Ales Steger |
| Publisher: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Imprint: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 190 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 153mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Mitja Cander
Editor Mitja Cander studied comparative literature at the Faculty of Art, Ljubljana University. Between 1995 and 2000 Cander was the editor of the literary supplement of the Maribor literary magazine, Dialogi; since 1996 he has been editor of Slovenia’s leading literary press, Beletrina. He received the Stritar Award (1998) for the best young critic and the Glazer Prize (2000) for his cultural contributions to the city of Maribor.
Co-editor Tom Priestly, a graduate of Downing College, Cambridge, received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in 1970. In 1992 he retired with over twenty-two years experience teaching Russian and Slavic Linguistics from the University of Alberta. He is fluent in Russian, German, French, and Slovene languages, and is the author, co-author, or translator of dozens of scholarly books on subject ranging from Russian pronunciation rules to the history of the Slovene minority in Carinthia. Mr. Priestly lives in Canada with his wife and has two children.
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