Uroš Zupan (born 25 August 1963) is a Slovene

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and

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. He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poetry has also been translated into German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, English, Serbian and Croatian. 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. He has translated works by Yehuda Amichai and

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into Slovene. In 1996 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection ''Odpiranje delte'' (Opening the Delta) and in 2000 the

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for his poetry collection ''Drevo in vrabec'' (The Tree and the Sparrow).

Poetry collections

* ''Copati za hojo po Kitajski'' (Slippers for Walking Around China), 2008 * ''Jesensko listje'' (Autumn Leaves), 2006 * ''Lokomotive'' (Locomotives), 2004 * ''Sutre'' (Sūtras), 1991, 2002, 2003 * ''Nafta'' (Oil), 2002 * ''Drevo in vrabec'' (The Tree and the Sparrow), 1999 * ''Nasledstvo'' (Succession), 1998 * ''Odpiranje delte'' (Opening the Delta), 1995 * ''Reka'' (River), 1993

References

Slovenian poets Slovenian male poets Slovenian translators Living people 1963 births People from Trbovlje University of Ljubljana alumni {{slovenia-writer-stub