Background
Svetina was born in Ljubljana in 1948.
Svetina was born in Ljubljana in 1948.
He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and worked in numerous experimental theatre companies in the late 1960s and 1970s.
In 1998 he was appointed Director of the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia. In 2014 he was elected President of the Slovene Writers" Association. He worked at RTV Slovenia and the Mladinsko Theatre.