Ales Steger was born in 1973 in Ptuj, Slovenia - where he grew up -
then part of the former Yugoslavia ruled by Tito, which gained its
independence when he was 18. He published his first collection in
1995 at the age of 22, and was immediately recognised as a key
voice in the new generation of post-Communist poets not only in
Slovenia but throughout central Europe. Notable for its moral
engagement, Steger's poetry is acutely precise in its observation
and concentration as well as multi-layered and technically
versatile, ingenious and inventive, adventurous and playful yet
serious in intention. Above all, his poems are incessantly curious
in their investigations which the reader is invited to share - and
he loves to ambush the reader with the unexpected. His influences
are mainly European, including the Serbian master poet Vasko Popa,
as well as German and Spanish-language poets he has translated into
Slovenian, such as Bachmann, Benn, Huchel, Neruda and Vallejo. He
has added his own strand of writing to the distinctively European
genre of prose poems in pieces which describe everyday objects in
minute terms, only to explode in the imagination through what he
perceives in them. He is also known for his prose books and
experimental writing including his Written on Site pieces.
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