In Elvis's Room

Sebastijan Pregelj was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1970 and studied history at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. He has published six novels, including Kronika pozabljanja (A Chronicle of Forgetting, 2014), which was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and V Elvisovi sobi (In Elvis's Room, 2019), which won the Cankar Award and was shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for Best Slovene Novel. He also writes books for children. Pregelj lives and works in Ljubljana and is a member of the Slovene Writers' Association. Rawley Grau has translated numerous works from Slovenian, including two novels by Dusan Sarotar, Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray, both of which were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the Lavrin Diploma for excellence in translation from the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he has lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for the past two decades.