Aleš Debeljak (born 1961), is a Slovenian poet, editor, and professor of cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana. Debeljak holds a PhD in Social Thought from Syracuse University, New York. Besides cultural criticism and poetry, Debeljak also was a significant columnist in his country's largest newspaper.
His poetry is noted for its melancholy as well as the way in which things like family and God are important again. An opponent to the everything-goes schools of modern thought, such as Post-Modernism, Debeljak's work is informed by an "Enlightenment" ideal of right and wrong, good and bad. According to his translator, Debeljak goes a long time without writing poetry and then turns out an excellent book in just a few months.
