Tomo Virk
Tomo Virk is a Slovene literary historian and essayist.
Virk was born in Ljubljana in 1960. He studied Comparative literature and German language at the University of Ljubljana and works as a lecturer at the University. He was head of the Jury for the Kresnik Award between 2004 and 2007. In 1996 he received the Rožanc Award for his book of literary essays Ujetniki bolečine.
Duhovna zgodovina, 1989Postmoderna in »mlada slovenska proza«, 1991Kratka zgodovina večnosti, 1993Bela dama v labirintu: idejni svet J. L. Borgesa, 1994Ujetniki bolečine, 1995Tekst in kontekst: eseji o sodobni slovenski prozi, 1997 * Premisleki o sodobni slovenski prozi, 1998Moderne metode literarne vede in njihove filozofsko teoretske osnove: metodologija 1, 1999, 2003, 2008Strah pred naivnostjo: poetika postmodernistične proze, 2000Primerjalna književnost na prelomu tisočletja: kritični pregled, 2007Izleti čez mejo: razprave o evropski in latinskoameriški prozi, 2008