Michele Obit

Italy, 1966

Michele Obit was born 1966 in Ludwigsburg, West Germany. He works as a journalist for the Slovenian weekly Novi Matajur in the Udine region in northern Italy. Since 2002 he has been the president of the cultural association of Čedad (Cividalle dei Friuli). Since 2006, as a part of the “Stazione di Topolò / Postaja Topolove” festival, he has been organizing “Voci della sala d'aspetto / Glasovi iz čakalnice” literary readings. He was one of the cofounders of the “Različni jeziki / Linguaggi di-versi” poetry translation workshop. So far he has published 6 collections of poetry, among them Moby dick (Faenza, 2004) and  Quiebra-Canto (Lealon, Colombia, 2004). He has also translated a number of  Slovenian poets and published them in anthologies and collections.