Auteur: Uroš Zupan

UROŠ ZUPAN, a poet and essayist, was born in 1963 in Trbovlje, Slovenia. He graduated in comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He received a numerous national and international awards and prizes including: Best first Collection Award, Prešeren Foundation Award, Jenko Prize, Župančič Prize, Herman Lenz Award (Langenburg, Germany, 1999), Premio della VI Edizione del Festival Internazionale di Poesia (Genova, Italy, 2000), Wyslawa Szymborska Award (Krakow, Poland, 2016) etc. By now, he has published fourteen poetry collections and eleven books of essays. He has also translated a number of poets, including Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Aleksandar Ristović, Abdulah Sidran and Billy Collins. His own work has appeared in numerous languages, books, anthologies and journals. He lives as a free-lance writer with his family and dog in Ljubljana.