They received it for the translation of Štegr's poems Above the Sky Beneath the Earth (Au-delà du ciel sous la terre), which were published last year by the Gallimard publishing house in the book collection Du mond entier, in which Gallimard publishes poetry books by modern classics such as Neruda, Michaux and Borges. It is a selection of poems that Šteger has written for the last ten years and published in Slovenian in the poetry collection of the same name (published by Mladinska knjiga) and in the collection Svet je vmes (Pivec publishing house).
Aleš Šteger and his French translator Giulleume Métayer are recipients of the prestigious French Alain Bosquet poetry prize.
