Fabjan Hafner (b. 1966 in Carinthia, d. 2016), translator, poet and literary scholar, active at the Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research in Klagenfurt, co-founder of numerous literary journals and festivals. The Fabjan Hafner Prize for translations from German into Slovenian and vice versa is named after him. Complete works in Slovenian: Iz jezika, ki ga ni (From a language that does not exist, 2021). In German: Erste und letzte Gedichte, Suhrkamp, 2020 (trans. Peter Handke) and poems in the anthology Mein Nachbar auf der Wolke; Slowenische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Carl Hanser Verlag & Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, 2023).

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