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Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins
Published: Mon Apr 15 1991
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Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014), a Slovenian born in Zagreb, Croatia, is considered one of the great postwar Central European poets. Among his books translated into English are The Blue Tower (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), On the Tracks of Wild Game (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), and Soy Realidad (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014). Šalamun taught at the Universities of Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts, Pittsburgh, and Richmond, and was invited to be member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1971. He also spent several years as cultural attaché to the Slovenian Consulate in New York. He lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

 

AGNI has published the following translations:

The Past in My Mind by Ales Debeljak
Judas Iscariot by Tomaz Šalamun
Marko by Tomaz Šalamun
Oops! by Tomaz Šalamun
Paris, 1978 by Tomaz Šalamun
Pour un jeune Chalamoun qui se vend dans la rue by Tomaz Šalamun

 

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