Marjan Strojan (born 16 August 1949) is a Slovene

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and

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. He studied Comparative literature and

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at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a journalist at the Slovene section of the

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and as a film critic and literary editor at

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. He has written a number of volumes of poetry and translated

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, Milton's

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and Sonnets as well as poems by William Shakespeare,

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, Sydney Lea and others into Slovene. He has also edited and in part translated the first comprehensive anthology of English poetry in Slovene. Strojan has written a number of essays, papers and studies on English poetry and contributed to the South Slavic Miltoniana (v. Milton in Translation, OUP, 2016). From 2009 to 2016 he was the president of the Slovenian section of PEN International. In 2000 he won the

Veronika Award The Veronika Award ( sl, Veronikina nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best Slovene language, Slovene poetry collection of the year. It has been bestowed since 1997 by the Celje, Municipality of Celje at the Veronika ...

for his poetry volume ''Parniki v dežju'' (Steamers in the Rain)., in 1995 and 2003 Sovre Translation Awards for Beowulf and Milton's Paradise Lost and the Prešeren Foundation Award for The Canterbury Tales in 2015.

Poetry collections

* ''Hribi, oblaki, lepo pozdrave'' (Hills, Clouds, Greetings) 2019 *''U većernjoj svetlosti'' (''In the Evening Light'', tr. by Milan Djordjević) 2018 *''Pesmi iz iger'' (Songs from Plays) 2017 *''Dells and Hollows'', tr. by the Author, 2015 *''V vetru in dežju'' (In Wind and Rain) 2015 *''El libro azul y otras poemas'', tr. by Teresa Kores 2012 *''In Ufriendly Weather, Four Slovenian Poets'', 2011 *''Vreme, kamni, krave'' (Weather, Stones, Cows), 2010 * ''Pokrajine s senco'' (Landscapes with Shadows), 2006 * ''Dan, ko me ljubiš'' (The Day You Love Me), 2003 * ''Vyleti do prirody'', tr. by František Benhart, 2002 * ''Parniki v dežju'' (Steamers in the Rain), 1999 * ''Drobne nespečnosti'' (Small Insomnias), 1991 * ''Izlet v naravo'' (Excursion into Nature), 1990

References

Slovenian poets Slovenian male poets Slovenian journalists Slovenian translators Living people 1949 births Veronika Award laureates University of Ljubljana alumni International Writing Program alumni {{slovenia-writer-stub