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tomaz salamun
Tomaz Salamun was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia and raised
in Koper, Slovenia. He has a degree in Art History from the University
of Ljubljana, and before devoting himself to poetry he worked
as a conceptual artist. He has published thirty collections of
poetry in his home country and is recognized as one of the leading
poets in Central Europe. Among his honors include the Preseren
Fund Prize, the Jenko Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a visiting Fulbright
to Columbia University, and a fellowship to the International
Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He has also served
as Cultural Attaché to the Slovenian Embassy in New York.
Besides having his work appear in numerous journals internationally,
he has had four collections of selected poetry published in English:
The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (Ecco Press, 1988);
The Shepherd, the Hunter (Pedernal, 1992); The Four
Questions of Melancholy (White Pine, 1997); and Feast
(Harcourt Brace, 2000). He is married to the painter Metka Krasovec.
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Books by Tomaz Salamun published by Twisted Spoon:
A Ballad for Metka Krasovec
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