Uroš Zupan


Uroš Zupan is a Slovene poet and translator. He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poetry has also been translated into German, Polish, Czech, English, Serbian and Croatian.
Zupan was born in Trbovlje in 1963 and lived there until he went to study Comparative literature and Sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana. He works as a translator from English, Croatian and Serbian into Slovene. He has translated works by Yehuda Amichai and John Ashbery into Slovene. In 1996 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Odpiranje delte and in 2000 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Drevo in vrabec.

Poetry collections