Programme
Saturday, 7. 6.
arrivals in Ljubljana, transfer to Dane in South-Western Slovenia
Sunday, 8. 6. – Wednesday, 11.6.
introductory session, planning workshop schedule, participants read their own work, discussion about selected texts, working individually or with the author of text one is translating, impromptu readings ...
Wednesday, 11. 6.
6 p.m. Reading at Sežana Library http://www.sez.sik.si
Friday, 13. 6.
morning - departure for Ljubljana, settling in hotel
8 p.m. – reading at Festival Živa književnost / Living Literature Festival www.skuc.org
Saturday, 14. 6. or Sunday 15. 6.
departures
Participants:
Alicia García Núñez has a degree in Journalism. She has worked in a variety of mass media: TV, newspapers and radio. In 2008, she was appointed Managing Director of the Centre of Contemporary Art and the La Llotja Sala Cultural concert hall. She has organised several festivals. As a poet, she has performed in cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Alicante, Murcia, Valencia, Berlin, Ljubljana and Marnay-sur-Seine (France). Performance art is one of the means she uses to develop her work. She has also attended two artists’ residences: in Kočevje and Marnay-Sur-Seine, France. She has participated in a number of joint exhibitions and, in November 2013, put on her first solo exhibition entitled NOpoetry in La Lonja del Pescado Hall, Alicante. Currently, she is a freelancer working in the fields of art and journalism. She has published two books of poetry. Her third poetry collection Más cicatrices me hacen más alta (More Scars Make Me Higher) is to be published in 2014 with Baile del Sol publishing. The book was written during her stay in Slovenia.
Anna Gulczynska was born in Poland in 1977. She studied German and has spent a lot of time in Germany, working in different jobs. She now lives in Frankfurt. She writes poetry in Polish but her poems are yet to be published.
Anna Mattsson (born in 1966) is a Swedish poet, novelist and translator. Since her debut in 1988, she has published 10 books of her own and several translations. She studied Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Nordic Languages. For a number of years, she worked as a translator for the Nordic Council of Ministers, particularly between Faroese and Swedish. Between 1990 and 1993, she lived in the Faroe Islands where she studied Nordic Language at the University of Torshavn. Since 2001, she has been involved in the cultural exchange between Sweden and Cambodia. She lived in Phnom Penh between 2003 and 2006 and still does, from time to time. Among others, she has published a translation of the world-famous children’s book Pippi Longstocking in the Khmer language (Cambodian). Her latest book is the poetry collection Ljusgatan (Light Street/The Street of Light), published in 2013.
Kallia Papadaki was born in Didymoteicho in 1978 and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied Economics at Bard College and Brandeis University in the United States. Her short story collection The Back-Lot Sound (Polis Publishers, 2009) received warm critical reviews and won the New Writers Award from the Greek literary journal Diavazo. Her short stories and poems have been included in international anthologies and literary journals. Her latest book Lavender in December (Polis Publishers, 2011) is a collection of poems. She works as a professional screenwriter. September (the 48th Karlovy Vary IFF official selection competition, 2013) is her first feature script.
Kristina Hočevar (1977), poet. She obtained her BA in Slovenian Language and Literature and General Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She currently works as a high-school teacher at two schools. She is the author of five poetry collections: V pliš (Into Plush, 2004), Fizični rob (The Physical Border, 2007), Repki (Little Tails 2008), Nihaji (Oscillations, 2010) and Na zobeh aluminij, na ustnicah kreda (Aluminium on the Teeth, Chalk on Lips, 2012). The author received the Zlata ptica Award for her third poetry collection Little Tails and her latest book won her the 2013 Jenko Award conferred by the Slovene Writers’ Association.