Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association.

He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of the literary historian and philosopher Dušan Pirjevec.

In his college years he collaborated with the poet Jure Detela and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office).

In 1996 he received the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Klesani kamni (Carved Stones).

[3] His poems have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Malay, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian.