Evald Flisar (born 13 February 1945) is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright, editor and translator.

He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for three consecutive terms between 1995 and 2002[1] and is editor-in-chief of the literary and cultural magazine Sodobnost.

[2] Flisar was born in 1945 in Gerlinci in the Prekmurje region of eastern Slovenia.

He attended secondary school in Murska Sobota and studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana, English and English literature at Chiswick Polytechnic in London and for a while in Australia.

He received the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1993 for his travelogue Popotnik v kraljestvu senc and his plays Kaj pa Leonardo?