Gašper Torkar

1992, Slovenia

Gašper Torkar, born in 1992, is a poet, occasional translator, DJ and a student of Sociology and Comparative Literature in Faculty of Arts in University of Ljubljana. His poetry debut is coming out next year. He is publishing his poetry in literary review Literatura. He gave a reading at the festival Mlade rime and other poetry venues around Ljubljana and at the festival Dichters in de Prinsentuin (Poets in the Prince's garden) in Groningen. He's helping with organization of Pranger, a festival for poets and critics, and few times a year he organizes poetry readings in the bookshop of a publishing house Goga in Novo mesto, which is also his home town.

Photo Jan Glas