Tree with No Name

Jancar, today the leading writer of contemporary Slovenian prose, was born in Maribor, Slovenia. A former president of the Slovenian PEN Center and a winner of the Preseren Foundation Award, he is currently an editor of the New Review. Michael Biggins's translations of works by Slovene authors such as Drago Jančar, Tomaž Šalamun, Vladimir Bartol and Lojze Kovačič have been published by Harcourt, Archipelago and Dalkey Archive, among others. In 2015 he was awarded the Lavrin Diploma of the Society of Slovene Literary Translators for distinguished contributions to the advancement of Slovene literature in English. He lives in Seattle.

Jancar, one of Slovenia's foremost writers, skillfully infuses even the most mundane events with foreboding, dread and paranoia. Publishers Weekly As a novelist and a master of short prose, Jancar reveals deep human social and psychological traumas and--like his Central European literary and spiritual relatives, Franz Kafka, G nter Grass, or Milan Kundera--finds no escape from the unclear, primal, and evil human lot... A unique, ethically sensitive, and politically independent thinker. Slavic and East European Journal A clutch of brusque, seriocomic and sometimes forbidding tales about lust, loss and betrayal... Taut storytelling... Kirkus Review The practice of reading [The Tree with No Name] becomes the practice of sifting: an arduous though occasionally rewarding experience. Times Literary Supplement A timely work, it is likely to become more and more relevant over the coming years. Quarterly Conversation