Tomaž Šalamun

Tomaž Šalamun

Tomaž Šalamun is a Slovenian poet. He was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He has published 39 collections of poetry in his native Slovenian language. 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 since then. For a time, he served as Cultural Attaché to the Consulate General of Slovenia in New York. He has had several collections of poetry published in English, 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), "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, Slovenia, and is married to the painter Metka Krašovec.

External links

• Tomaž Šalamun Official Home Page
• Guardian article on Salamun
• Salamun bio at Smith College Poetry Center
• Tomaž Šalamun reading on February 13, 2008: Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 7, No. 2 (Fall 2008)
• Tomaz Salamun reading at Berkeley from UCTV
• Poems by Tomaz Salamun, Trans. Michael Thomas Taren, in Vol. 9 No. 2 of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts