Miklavž Komelj (born 10 July 1973) is a Slovene poet and art historian.
Komelj was born in Kranj in 1973. He studied History of Art at the University of Ljubljana and started publishing poetry in 1991.
In 2006 he won the Jenko Award for his poetry collection HipodromNajlepše verze kujeta Osti in Komelj (Osti and Komelj Strike Best Verses), RTV Slovenija, 14 December 2006) and in 2010 the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Nenaslovljiva imena.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients In 2011 he received the Rožanc Award for Nujnost poezije.
Poetry collections
Luč delfina (1991) Jantar časa (1995) Rosa (2002) Hipodrom (2006) Nenaslovljiva imena (2008) Modra obleka (2011) Roke v dežju (2011) Noč je abstraktnejša kot N (2014) Minima impossibilia (2016) Liebestod (2017) 11 (2018) Stigmatizacija (2019) Goreča knjiga (2020)
Books of prose
Sovjetska knjiga (2012) Larvae (2019) Skrij me, sneg (2021)
Book of essays
Nujnost poezije (2010)
References
https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/ancient-modern-racetracks-an-interview-with-translator-dan-rosenberg-on-miklavz-komeljs-hippodrome-conducted-by-zach-savich/