Lado Kralj

Who is Lado Kralj?

Lado Kralj is a Slovene writer, theatre critic and literary historian. From 1987 to 2005 he worked as a professor in comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and has published and contributed to numerous books on literature and theatre.

Kralj was born in Slovenj Gradec in northern Slovenia in 1938. He studied comparative and English literature at the University of Ljubljana where he also got his PhD in 1986. He attended postgraduate study at New York University and co-founded an experimental theatre group upon his return to Ljubljana. Between 1978 and 1982 her was also artistic director at the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana. He worked as a lecturer at the University in Ljubljana until his retirement in 2005.

In 2010 he published his literary debut Kosec koso brusi which won him Best Debut Novel Award awarded by the Union of Slovenian Publishers and Booksellers as well as the 2011 Fabula Award for best collection of short prose in Slovene published within the previous two years.