Tomaž Salamun
Tomaž Šalamun (born July 4, 1941 in Zagreb , Independent State of Croatia , † December 27, 2014 in Ljubljana , Slovenia ) was a Slovenian poet.
Life
Šalamun grew up in what was then Yugoslavia in Koper . He published 39 collections of poetry in his native Slovene . Šalamun spent two years at the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa in the 1970s and has since lived temporarily in the United States. For a while he worked as a cultural attaché at the Slovenian Embassy in New York City .
Šalamun lived in Ljubljana and was married to the painter Metka Krašovec. He was elected an associate member in 2005 and a full member in 2013 of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
Works in German translation
- A stalk of parsley in a tuxedo. Poems , translated by Peter Urban , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-10-070401-0 .
- Four questions of melancholy , Ed. Correspondence, Vienna 2003.
- But these are exceptions , Ed. Correspondence, Vienna 2004.
- Ballad for Metka Krašovec , Ed. Correspondence, Vienna 2005.
- Read: love . Translation by Fabjan Hafner . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
- Wink to the Sphinx , Daedalus-Verl., Münster 2007.
- Row! Row! . Bilingual edition. Translation Gregor Podlogar and Monika Rinck . Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2012.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tomaž Šalamun in the catalog of the German National Library
- Guardian article on Salamun
- Biography at Smith College Poetry Center
- Biographical information at the SAZU (Slovenian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Šalamun, Tomaž |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zagreb |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 2014 |
| Place of death | Ljubljana |