Uroš Zupan
Slovene poet and translator (born 1963) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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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]