Andrej Blatnik
Andrej Blatnik (born 22 May 1963) is a Slovene writer, editor, and university professor. Biography Blatnik was born in Ljubljana in 1963. He received a master's in American literature at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts, and a PhD (on the influence of popular culture on American postmodernist novels) at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Social Sciences in communication studies in 2004. He worked as a freelance writer before becoming the fiction editor for the Slovenian publisher Cankarjeva založba. He has been an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts since 2009, and was the president of the jury for the Vilenica Central European Literary Prize between 2007 and 2015. Blatnik travels a lot, especially in India and Southeast Asia, which occasionally reflects in his writing. Awards In 1984 he won the Zlata Ptica award for his first book of short stories, Šopki za Adama venijo, in 1991 the Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana for his book of short stories Menjave kož, and in 2002 the highest Slovene cultural award, the Prešeren Foundation Award, for his book of short stories Zakon želje. His novel Spremeni me was shortlisted for best novel of the