Poetry Translation Workshop, Slovenia

Slovenia workshop poets 2015

Literature Across Frontiers is co-operating once more with the Centre for Slovenian Literature on its annual poetry translation workshop. The participating poets will spend a week together in the Slovenian countryside and in Ljubljana translating each other’s poetry and performing live at public events. The participating writers are Ana Pepelnik (Slovenia), Arvis Viguls (Latvia),  Bao Chan Nguyen (Vietnam), Franca Mancinelli (Italy),  Ming Di (China) and Narlan Matos (Brazil). Click on the ‘participants’ tab to the left for full biographies of each of the participants.

Live events

Wednesday 25th November, 8pm
Tomaj, Kosovelova domačija

Friday 27th November, 1pm
reading and presentation at the Slovenian Book Fair, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

The workshop is organised by Center for Slovenian Literature, Ljubljana, in cooperation with: Literature Across Frontiers and Društvo slovenskih pisateljev/Slovene Writers association. It is supported by Javna agencija za knjigo RS/Slovenian Book Agency and Istituto Italiano di cultura Lubiana.