Taja Kramberger

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Taja Kramberger (born September 11, 1970) is a Slovene poet, translator, essayist and historical anthropologist.

She was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and lives in Ljubljana. She is Editor-in-Chief of Monitor ISH-Review of Humanities and Social Sciences. She has fellowships abroad at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Collegium Budapest in Budapest, Edition Thanhaeuser in Ottensheim, Austria. She also publishes scientific and literary articles, essays and translations. She has participated at some international colloquia and also collaborated in the organization of some.

She published 3 books of poetry:

Marcipan 1997 (in Slovene/Marzipan)
Spregovori morje in 1999 (in Slovene/The Sea Says)
Gegenstroemung 2001 (in German, Edition Thanhaeuser, Ottensheim)
Forthcoming in 2004: a book of poetry in 4 languages (Slovenian, English, French, and Italian), titled Mobilizacije/Mobilizations/Mobilisations/Mobilitazioni.

Her poems are translated in 11 languages and published in different literary reviews in Slovenia and abroad. She translated into Slovenian language a book of poetry of Italian poet Michele Obit (Leta na oknu), a selection of poetry of Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz for a book (with an introduction), a book of Gao Xingjian (together with Drago B. Rotar), etc.

She was the principal artistic director and coordinator of the 4th International Poets' & Translators' Workshop in Koper, with 22 participants from 10 European countries ([Website]) The project is travelling around Europe. Until now it has stopped in:

1999 – Varna, Bulgaria
2000 – Balatonfüred, Hungary
2001 – Topolo, Italy
2002 – Koper, Slovenia.

In July 2003 the presentation of the workshop was at Collegium Budapest, Hungary.

Taja Kramberger

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