An Evening with the Distinguished Translator Aleš Berger

You are invited to an evening with the distinguished translator Aleš Berger on Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 7:00 PM in the Praetorian Palace. The evening, prepared together with the Peter Martinc Cultural Society, is dedicated to his 80th birthday and the new translation of Molière’s “The Misanthrope”. The guest will be interviewed by Neva Zajc. Aleš Berger (b. 1946) is one of the most prominent Slovenian literary translators, essayists and editors. From French and Spanish he has translated into Slovenian numerous outstanding works of poetry, prose and drama. His best-known translations include Queneau’s Exercises in Style, works by Prévert, Borges and Beckett, and the legendary comic Asterix. As a long-time editor at Mladinska knjiga he significantly shaped Slovenian publishing, and for his impressive translation oeuvre he received the Prešeren Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017. See you there, Jasna Čebron and Neva Zajc. Organiser: Peter Martinc Cultural Society.