Evald Flisar (1945) has visited 98 countries, worked as an underground train driver in Sydney, editor of an encyclopaedia of science in London, author of short stories and radio plays for the BBC, and was president of the Slovene Writers’ Association (1995-2002). Since 1998 he has been the editor of Sodobnost, the oldest Slovene literary journal. He has received most Slovene literary awards. He is the most translated contemporary Slovene author, and his plays are regularly staged abroad. His diverse oeuvre mainly consists of books for adults, but Flisar has also wrote some successful books for children and YA: Alice in Crazyland, which was also adapted into a comic book, and Look Through the Window.