Born in 1982 in Rome, Martin Peter Kastelic, currently lives in Ljubljana. After completing a traineeship with the Slovene Translation Department of the European Commission, he has worked as a freelance translator. Aside from his translation work , he has recently enrolled into a PhD program within the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures , Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. His PhD thesis will focus on narrative strategies , mirroring the changed self- and world-experience of modernism in Italo 
Svevo’s novels.