Slovenia Translation Workshop 2013 – poetry in unofficial languages
Photo by Tsead Bruinja: Patrizia Gattaceca, Brane and Tibor Hrs Pandur at Štanjel & Dane, Slovenia
Photo by Tsead Bruinja: the view from Dane pri Sežani, Slovenia, where the workshop is taking place
Photo by Tsead Bruinja: Patrizia Gattaceca and Martín López-Vega in Štanjel & Dane, Slovenia.
Photo by Tsead Bruinja: Patrizia Gattaceca and Tibor Hrs Pandur at Štanjel & Dane, Slovenia.
Photo by Tsead Bruinja: Dane pri Sežani, Slovenia - sunset
Photo by Tsead Bruinja: Brane and Patrizia
Photo by Tsead Bruinja: Poets being shown round by Brane
Every year Literature Across Frontiers and the Centre for Slovenian Literature organise a translation workshop. This year the theme is poetry from unofficial languages. Patrizia Gattaceca, from France, who writes in Corsican, Maurizio Mattiuzza, from Italy, who writes in Friuli, Martín López-Vega, from Spain, writing in Asturian and Tsead Bruinja, from the Netherlands who writes Frisian and Dutch are joining Slovenian poet Tibor Hrs Pandur and Brane Mozetič from the Centre for Slovenian Literature. They are spending a week together in Dane pri Sežani & Ljubljana, translating each other’s poems and performing at Ljublana’s Festival Živa književnost / Living Literature Festival (www.skuc.org) on Friday the 14th of June.
This workshop is supported by Javna agencija za knjigo RS, ŠKUC (Students’ Cultural and Art Center), Ljubljana, the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Institut francais de Slovenie.