Aleš Čar is a Slovene writer

Writer

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, editor

Editor

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 and translator. He has published a number of novels and short stories. He works as editor in the culture section of the Slovene daily Dnevnik.

Čar was born in Idrija

Idrija

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 in the Goriška

Goriška

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 region in western Slovenia in 1968. He studied comparative literature

Comparative literature

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 and sociology

Sociology

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 at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 and works as an editor in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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. For a while he was chief editor of the (now dormant) magazine Balkanis and hosted a talk show about the arts on Slovene national TV

Radiotelevizija Slovenija

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. In 1997 he won Best Debut Novel Award awarded by the Union of Slovenian Publishers and Booksellers for Igra angelov in netopirjev (When Bats Dance with Angels).

Published works

• Igra angelov in netopirjev (When Bats Dance with Angels), novel, (1997)
• Pasji tango (Dog's Tango), novel, (1999)
• V okvari, short stories, (2003)
• Muhe, short stories, (2006)
• Made in Slovenia, short stories, (2007)
• O znosnosti, novel, (2011)