Background
Novak, Luka was born on August 1, 1963 in Koper, Slovenia. Son of Andrej and Edvina (Gregoric) Novak.
Novak, Luka was born on August 1, 1963 in Koper, Slovenia. Son of Andrej and Edvina (Gregoric) Novak.
He studied Comparative Literature, French, Italian and Romance Philology (Universities of Ljubljana, Bonn, Tübingen, 1989–1993), and obtained an MBA in 1997 (IEDC International Business School Bled, 1997).
He is the director of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Tübingen. An essayist and journalist (Telex, Problemi, Deutsche Welle, Delo) Novak co-founded Vale-Novak Publishers.
He ran for Mayor of Ljubljana in 2006.
And is a member of various boards: the Slovenian Book Fair (2002–2011), Maribor as European Capital of Culture 2012, the Slovenian Book Agency.