Martin Peter Kastelic, born in 1982 in Rome, lives in Ljubljana. After completing the traineeship with the Slovene Translation Department of the European Commission, he was working as a freelance translator. Apart from the translation work, he has recently enrolled into a PhD program within the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His PhD project focuses on narrative strategies, mirroring the changed self- and world-experience of modernism in Italo Svevo’s novels