Born in 1983 in Novo mesto, Andraž Rožman now lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He holds a degree in Journalism from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana and he worked as a journalist for Dnevnik newspaper for more than 15 years. In recent years, he has devoted himself exclusively to writing. He published his first non-fiction work, Three Memories – between Haifa, Aleppo and Ljubljana with Goga in 2019, a story about a Syrian-Palestinian poet and publisher with whom Andraž became close friends. With this book, he was nominated for the best Slovenian novel of the year. In 2022 he published a novel, Titov sin (Tito’s Son), which deals with mental distress, psychiatric institution, hearing voices and psychoanalysis, and was also nominated for the best Slovenian novel of the year and was translated to Serbian (2023).

Andraž’s latest book is titled Tega se ne da izbrisati (This Cannot Be Erased, 2024). It is a novel of voices, written in the style of Svetlana Alexievich’s method, and it deals with the erasure of 25,671 people from the register of permanent residents – a move carried out by the Slovenian state in 1992, widely regarded as bureaucratic ethnic cleansing.

Characteristic of his work is that he first establishes a dialogue with oppressed groups himself, and then extends this dialogue to the relationship between the literature that emerges from it and the reader.