Barbara Korun (born 1963) is a Slovene

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. She is one of the leading figures in the generation of radical young women poets in Slovenia and her poems have also been translated into English and published in the USA and Ireland (translated by

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). Korun was born in

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in 1963. She studied

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and

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at the

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and worked as a lecturer and dramaturge. Her poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies both at home and abroad and she regularly appears at literary festivals and poetry readings. In 2011 she received the

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for her poetry collection ''Pridem takoj''.Veronika Award official site
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Poetry collections

* ''Ostrina miline'' (The Edge of Grace), 1999 * ''Zapiski iz podmizja'' (Notes from under the Table), 2003 * ''Razpoke'' (Fissures), 2004 * ''Pridem takoj'' (Back soon), 2011 * ''Čećica, motenja od ljubezni'', 2014 * Vmes, 2016 * Idioritmija, 2021

References

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