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Slovene poet and translator (born 1963) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uroš Zupan (born 25 August 1963) is a Slovene poet and translator. He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poetry has also been translated into German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, English, Serbian and Croatian.[1]
Uroš Zupan | |
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Born | Trbovlje, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) | 25 August 1963
Occupation | Poet and translator |
Notable works | Odpiranje delte, Drevo in vrabec |
Notable awards | Prešeren Foundation Award 1996 for Odpiranje delte Jenko Award 2000 for Drevo in vrabec |
Zupan was born in Trbovlje in 1963 and lived there until he went to study Comparative literature and Sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana. He works as a translator from English, Croatian and Serbian into Slovene.[2] He has translated works by Yehuda Amichai and John Ashbery into Slovene.[3] In 1996 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Odpiranje delte (Opening the Delta)[4] and in 2000 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Drevo in vrabec (The Tree and the Sparrow).[5]