Background
Mikeln was born Alojz Mikeln in Celje in 1930.
Mikeln was born Alojz Mikeln in Celje in 1930.
He attended school in Celje until 1947 when he moved to Ljubljana where he first studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and in 1952 enrolled at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television.
He was president of Slovene Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association and was the initiator of the Writers for Peace Committee, founded in 1984. He was the Committee chairman for the first decade of its existence. The Committee still operates within the fold of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association International to this day, providing a platform for literary and intercultural dialogue and understanding.
He worked in theatres in Kranj and Ljubljana, as an editor at the newspapers Delo and Naši razgledi and as Director of the Cankarjeva založba publishing house.
Jugoslavija za začetnike (Yugoslavia for Beginners), 1967 Kako se je naša dolina privadila svobodi (How Our Valley Got Used to Freedom), 1973 Adolfa Hitlerja tretja svetovna vojna in kratki kurz vladanja za začetnike, (Adolf Hitler"s Third World War and a Short Course in Ruling for Beginners), 1980 Zgaga vojvodine Kranjske, (All this Fuss in the Duchy of Carniola) 1985 Poročilo delovne skupine za ruiniranje države in kratki kurz Vladanje za srednjo (usmerjeno) stopnjo (Report of the Working Committee for the Ruination of the State and a Short Course in Ruling for Intermediate Level), 1989 Stalin: življenjska pot samodržca (of Stalin), 1985.