Tomaž Šalamun
Dalmatinova 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; tel: 386 (0)1 2314 522 fax:
386 (0)14304843
e-mail:Metka.Krasovec@siol.net
Education
1965 MA in Art History, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; more
studies: 1967 Paris, 1970 Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; 1972
University of Iowa; 1979 UNAM, Mexico City
Languages
French, English, Italian, Croatian and Serbian, some Spanish
Publications
2009 “There’s the Hand and There’s
the Arid Chair, Counterpath Press (due Feb. 2009)
2008 “Woods and Chalices” Harcourt, New York
“Poker” uglyducklingpresse, New York (new enlarged edition)
2006 “The Book for my Brother” Harcourt, New
York
“Row”, ARC Publications, England
2004 “Blackboards” (Artwork by Metka
Krašovec) saturnalia books, Philadelphia
2003 “Poker,” uglyducklingpresse, New
York (finalist for PEN Translation Prize)
2002 “The Four Questions of Melancholy,”
White Pine Press, New York, Third Edition
2001 “A Ballad for Metka Krašovec”
Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, (starred review in PW)
2000 “Feast,” Harcourt, New York, edited
by Charles Simic, introduction by Edward Hirsch
1997 Homage to Hat & Uncle Guido &
Eliot,” Selected poems, edited by CharlesSimic, introduction by Robert Hass, ARC
Publications, United Kingdom;
“The Four Questions of Melancholy,” Selected and New Poems,
edited
by
Christopher Merrill, White Pine Press, New York (nominated for the
1997
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry)
1992 “The Shepherd, the Hunter,”
Translated and edited by Sonja Kravanja,
Pedernal, Santa Fe (Columbia University Translation Prize)
1988 “The Selected Poems of Tomaž
Šalamun,” Edited by Charles
Simic, Introduced by Robert Hass, ECCO Press, New York
1974 “Snow,” Toothpaste Press, West
Branch, Iowa,
“Turbines,” Windhover Press, University of
Iowa
1966 – 2008 Has published 37 books of
poetry in Slovenian, most recently »Njanja me do nikoder
obišče kot riba, Hyperion, Koper 2008, »Sinji stolp«
(»Blue
Tower« ) Beletrina, Ljubljana 2007, »Sončni voz«
(»Chariot of the Sun«) Beletrina, Ljubljana,
2005 and »Z Arhilohom po Kikladih» Cankarjeva
založba, Ljubljana,
2004. Many of these books or selections were translated and published in the
following languages: 18 books in Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian; 2 in
French
“Poèmes choisis, Editions Est Ouest, Paris 1995,
second edition 2001; “Livre pour mon
Frère,” M.E.E.T. Saint Nazaire 1998; 7 in German:
„Wink an die Sphinx“,
Dedalus, 2007; „Lesen: Lieben“ Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 2006;
„Ballade für Metka Krašovec“,
Vienna, 2005, „Aber das sind Ausnahmen“ Edition
Korrespondenzen, Vienna, 2004,
„Vier Fragen der Melancholie“ , Edition Korrespondenzen,
Vienna, 2003; “Wal,” Droschl
Verlag, Graz, 1990, “Ein Stengel Petersilie im Smoking,”
Fisher Verlag, Frankfurt, 1972; 4 in
Italian: “Quattro domande alla malinconia, Edizioni del Leone,
2005 “Il ragazzo e il cervo”
Multimedia Edizioni, Salerno, 2002;
“Acquedotto” Interlinea Edizioni, Novara, 2001
(Premio Alta Marea), 2000; 5 in Polish (2004, 2002, 2002, 1996,
1978), 2 in Czech (2003,
1996), 4 in Hungarian (2008,2007, 2006, 1994,) and 1 in the following
languages: Russian
(2002), Slovak (2002), Lithuanian (a chapbook, 2000), Spanish
(Seleccion de poemas,
Coleccion Visor de Poesia, Madrid, 1999), Dutch (1995), Swedish (1992)
Albanian (2006)
and Romanian (2004). Following chapbooks have appeared in the United
States
and Australia: “An Eel Rushing from the Mouth of the
Sun”, Black Warrior Review, 1999;
“Painted Desert,” a poetry miscellany chapbook,
1991, 1996, 1997, University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga; The Fifth Question And After: Poems For Tomaž
Šalamun, Edited and
introduced by Kevin Hart, Vagabond Press, 2001, Australia.
Selected magazines
Grand Street, Paris Review, Antaeus, Poetry (Chicago), Jubilat, APR,
Isthmus, Open City, NER-BLQ, Agni, Both, Ploughshare, Hills, Search for
Tomorrow, Boulevard, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, nowCulture,
Denver Quarterly, lyric, New Letters, Ironwood, Partisan Review,
Trafika, Boston Review, Chelsea, The Nation, Fence, The New American
Review, Pequod, Verse, Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Coast,
Harvard Review, The New Republic, Mississippi Review, Onthebus, Chicago
Review, Field, Alaska Quarterly Review, Conduit, Barrow Street,
Cimarron Review, 3rd Bed, 6x6, The Canary, EPR , Crowd, Fulcrum (all
USA); Esprit, Europe, Dédale (Paris); Jerusalem Review
(Jerusalem), Manuskripte (Graz), Akzente (Munich), Testo a fronte,
Poesia, Schema (Milan), Nuovi argomenti (Rome), Heat, Meanjin
(Australia), Literatura na swiecie (Warsaw), Thumbscrew (Oxford),
Poetry Review, poetry london, (London), Edinburgh Review, Poetry Wales,
Pretext, (Norwich), Revue de belles lettres, (Geneva), Maisonneuve
(Montreal)
Selected Anthologies
2005 Focus, Antologia Poética, Salvador, Brasil
2003 Akzente, Ein Reader aus füfzig Jahren, Hanser, München
2002 Agni, Thirtieth Anniversary Poetry Anthology; Carnet de Sarajevo,
Gallimard
1994 Pushcart Press: The Best American Small Presses, Pushcart Press
Prize
1995, 1983 “Contemporary East European Poetry,” Ardis
1991 “Child of Europe,” Penguin Books
1980 “Voices Within the Ark,” Avon Books, New York
1971 “New Writing in Yugoslavia,” Penguin Books
Work Experience
2008 Spring Semester, Distinguished Visiting Writer, The
University of Richmond,
2007 Spring Semester, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, The
University of Pittsburgh,
2006 Spring Semester, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, The
University of Pittsburgh,
2005 Spring Semester, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, The
University of Pittsburgh
2003 Visiting Writer at Maymester, University of Georgia, Athens
2001 Spring Semester, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, The
University of Massachusetts
1999 Fall Semester, Visiting Professor, Coal Royalty Chair Holder at
The University of Alabama
1996-99 Consul, Cultural Attaché at The Slovenian Consulate, New
York
1998 Meacham Writers’ Workshop, The University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga
1997 Visiting writer at MFA Writing Program at Vermont College
1996 Meacham Writers’ Workshop, The University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga
1988 Visiting writer at MFA Writing Program at Vermont College
Meacham
Writers’ Workshop
1987 Workshop Class, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
1986-87 Fulbright Grant, Senior Fellow at Columbia University, New York
1971-73 International Writing Program at Iowa
1970-72 Assistant Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1970 Artist, member of the Conceptual Slovenian group
“OHO” – represented at the MOMA, New
York, (“Information Show”), represented in permanent
collection at Moderna Galerrija,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
1968-69 Assistant Curator, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Selected Readings and Conferences
2008 University of Richmond, Richmond; Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; University
Washington, St. Louis; Lafayette College, Pennsylvania; New York
University, New York;
University of Virginia, Richmond; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Istanbul Poetry
Festival, Turkey; Festival Absolute Poetry, Monfalcone, Italy;
Weltklang.Nacht der Poesie,
Literaturwerksatt, Berlin; The Center for the Books Arts, New York;
Poetry Project, St. Marks
Church, New York; Syracuse University, New York; Boery Poetry
Club, New York; Housing
Works Poetry Reading, New York; Unterberg Poetry Center, 92 nd Street
Y, New York; 2008
Pamir’s Poetry Journey, Beijing, Huangshan Mountain, China;
Croatian Writer’s Club, Zagreb,
Croatia, Beletrina Readings, St. Peterburg, Vilnius, Gdansk; Europaen
Voices,
Literaturwerkstatt, Berlin;
2007 Columbia University, NYC; Vassar; University of
Massachusetts; Brown University;
Münster, Germany at the Ceremony when getting the European Prize
for Poetry.
KGB Poetry
Series, New York; Leipzig, Bookfair; Spazio Teatro No’hma,
Milano, Italy
Babel,
Festival di letteratura e traduzione, Bellinzona, Switzerland;
Europalia, Brussels; King’s
Lyn Poetry
Festival, England; Iowa City, 40 Years of IWP; Europalia, Brussels;
Jaime Sabine
Literary
Festival at San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico;
2006 Pittsburgh University Series, USA; Desert Nights,
University of Arizona, USA;
Poetry
Society of America, New York; Academy of American Poets, New York;
University
of Iowa, USA; University of Richmond, USA; Tirana, Albania; Budapest,
Hungary;
Guest of Honor at the World PEN Congress, Berlin; Literaturhaus
Berlin;
Njasso Poetry Festival, Sweden; Civitella Ranieri, Italy, Filozofska
Fakulteta
Ljubljana;
Lanion, France; Tinqueux, France; INALCO, Paris; American Corner,
Primorska
Univerza, Koper
2005 Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival, USA; Dublin
Writer’s Festival, Ireland; Genova
Poetry Festival, Italy; Buchbasel, Switzerland;
Literaturfestival Leukerbad, Switzerland,Poznan
Poetry Festival, Poland, University of Pittsburgh,
USA, Judge for Griffin Poetry Award,
Toronto, Canada; Festival Mundial de Poesia,
Santiago, Chile; Universita di Treviso, Italy;
Poetry Cafe, London; Literature Live, Zagreb;
EuroJapanese Poetry Festival, Tokio;
2004 Cuírt International Festival if Literature,
Ireland; STANZA, Scotland Poetry Festival;
Poetry on the Road, Bremen; alte schmiede, Vienna;
Internation PF Prague; Festival
Prize at Days and Nights of Literature, Constanta, Romania
2003 Morris Grey Lecture, Harvard; The Margaret Root Brown
Reading, Houston;
The Writer’s Garret, Dallas; Meacham Series,
Chattanooga; Between A&B, New York;
UMASS, Amherst, 40th Anniversary Celebration; University
of Georgia, Athens;
Festival Internacional de Poesía de
Medellín, Colombia; Bardinale, Dresden, Germany;
Helsinki Festival, 3. internationales literaturfestival
berlin; KGB Bar, New York;
Fort Collins, Colorado; Buffalo Literary Center, New York,
Bard College, Connecticut;
Days and Nights of Literature, Costanta, Romania;
Göteburg Book Fair, Sweden;
alte schmiede, literatur im herbst, Vienna;
2002 Blue-Met Festival, Montreal; Bogliasco Foundation,
Bogliasco; Multimedia
Edizioni, Pistoia; Centro de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Poetry
Spring, Vilnius;
Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven; Vermont College,
Bled; Napolipoesia,
Naples; University of Iowa, Iowa; Days and Nights of
Literature, Costanza, Romania;
2001 University of Georgia, Athens; Getty Museum, Los Angeles;
Salon du Livres, Paris;
Festival de
Poésie, Bordeaux, France; PSA, New York; University of Iowa,
Iowa;
Memorial Roethke
Reading, University of Washington, Seattle; Monash University,
Melbourne,
Australia; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne: Victorian
Writer’s
Centre, Adelaide; Writer’s Centre, Sidney; Teatro Stabile
Sloveno, Trieste, Italy;
Étonnants
Voyageurs, St. Malo, France.
2000 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, England; Troubadour, London; The
National Art’s Club, New
York; Casa
Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Bienal
Internacional do
Livro, Sao Paulo; Belo Horizonte; Salvador; Etonnants Voyageurs,
Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina ; Duino, Italy; Katowice, Poland.
1999 National Art Club, New York; LACMA, Beyond Baroque,
Los Angeles; Three Lands,
Three Generations,
Eastern European Poetry Today, North Western University, Chicago;
Westminster
College, Salt Lake City; Duke University, Durham; KGB, New York; The
University of
Syracuse; Art Institute Chicago; Tufts University, Boston; The
Blacksmith
House,
Cambridge; Maison de la Poesie, Radio France Culture, Paris;
Swedish Writers
Association,
Stockholm; PEN Club, Oslo; Turku, Finland;
1998 Bard College, New York; Adelaide Festival, Writers Week,
Australia;
Exoterica, New
York; College of Holly Cross, Wooster,
Massachusetts;
Festival de
poésie, Quebec; The University of Arizona, Tucson;
Posman
Books, New York;
The National Art’s Club, New
York
1997 International Festival of Authors, Harbourfront Center,
Toronto
Festival
franco-anglais de poésie, Paris; Beyond Baroque, Los
Angeles;
Redlands University, Los Angeles; Saint Mark’s Poetry Project,
New York;Vermont
College; Maryland University; Poets House, New
York; Library of
Congress, Washington;
1996 College of Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts;
Literaturhaus, Berlin;
Radio France
Culture, reading-interview; A tire-d’aile, Paris; Summer
Poetry School,
Prague; Prague Castle, Prague;
1995 Cheltenham Festival of Literature, United Kingdom; Le Divan,
Paris;
Madrid;
Marseilles; Alte-Schmiede, Vienna; Vilenica, Slovenia; Salon des
Livres, Paris
1994 Pushcart Prize, New York; Cambridge Literature Seminar,
United
Kingdom;
Budapest, Hungary
1993 Malmö Poetry Festival, Sweden; Contemporary World
Writers; St, James
Press; Struga
Poetry Festival (New Macedonia Prize), Macedonia; Salon des
Livres, Paris;
1992 Harbourfront Poetry Festival, Toronto; Voice Box,
Royal Festival Hall,
London; DIA
Center for the Arts, New York; Poetry Center 92 Street Y,
New York;
Sorbonne, Paris;
1990 Wheatland Conference on Literature, San Francisco; Jerusalem
Poetry Festival;
1989 Struga Poetry Festival, Macedonia; Munster, Germany; Vermont
USA;
1988 Rotterdam Poetry Festival; Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Vilenica,
Slovenia; Days of
Poetry,
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
1987 Poetry Society of America, New York; University of Iowa;
Georgia State
University;
University of Mississippi; New Orleans; Kolarac, Belgrade,
1986
Struga Poetry Festival, Macedonia; Harvard University; St.
Michael College,
Vermont; Poetry
Society of America, New York; Yugoslav Cultural Center,
New York;
Sarajevo Days of Poetry, Bosnia and Hercegovina;
1984 Styrian Poetry Festival, Graz, Austria;
1982 Struga Poetry Festival, Macedonia
1981 Centre Culturelle Yougoslave, Paris; George Pompidou, Paris;
Vienna, Austria
1979 Sarah Lawrence, New York
1977 Marburg, Germany; Goran Spring, Zagreb, Croatia;
Sarajevo Days of Poetry,
1975 Styrian Poetry Festival, Graz, Austria;
1973 University of Iowa, Iowa; Berkeley, California
1969 Festival Internazionale di Etna Taormina, Italy
Residencies
2006 Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy
2004 The Bogliasco Foundation, Genova
2003-2004 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD Visiting
writer in Berlin)
2002 The Bogliasco Foundation, Genova; Santa Maddalena
Foundation, Donnini, Italy
1997 Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy
1996 Maison des écrivains étrangers, Saint-Nazaire,
France
1995 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1989, 1986, 1979, 1974, 1973, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
1987 Karoly Foundation, Vence
1986 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire