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Tomaž Šalamun is a Slovenia

Slovenia

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n poet. He was born in 1941 in Zagreb

Zagreb

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, Croatia

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, and raised in Koper, Slovenia

Slovenia

. He has published 39 collections of poetry in his native Slovenian language

Slovenian language

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. Šalamun spent two years at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in the United States

United States

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since then. For a time, he served as Cultural Attaché to the Consulate General of Slovenia in New York

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. He has had several collections of poetry published in English

English language

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, including The Selected Poems of Tomaž Šalamun (Ecco Press, 1998); The Shepherd, the Hunter (Pedernal, 1992); The Four Questions of Melancholy (White Pine, 1997); Feast (Harcourt, 2000), "Poker" (Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective based in Brooklyn, New York City that publishes small to mid-size runs of poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. It was founded in 1993 by Matvei Yankelevich as a college zine before expanding to publishing...

), "Row!" (Arc Publications), "The Book for My Brother" (Harcourt), "Woods and Chalices" (Harcourt), and "There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair" (Counterpath, 2009). His poems have been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2004, he was the recipient of Romania's Ovid Festival Prize. He lives in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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, Slovenia, and is married to the painter Metka Krašovec.

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