Contempo- rary Slovenian poetry 2 - Ljudmila

Primož Repar (b. 1967) writes poetry and essays, while
he is also a freelance writer, translator, researcher and
editor. He graduated in philosophy and history at the
University of Ljubljana. In 1993 he joined forces with
an informal group of people – poets, philosophers,
essayists, scientists, writers, artists, painters, architects
– and along with some of them became the founder
of Apokalipsa, a magazine and a publishing house and
remained as its chief editor for almost fifteen years. He
is also researching the philosophy of S. Kierkegaard
and translating his work. Repar is the co-founder
of the Review within Review project, which connects
fifteen magazines from twelve European countries. His
specialty is haiku poetry. In his long-term dealings with
the haiku as an author, editor and analyst, he has sensed
and embraced the essence of the haiku, not in terms
of its execution or correctness but in the sense of the
original approach to reality implied by this form. The last
of his eight poetry collections are: Gozdovi, ikone (Woods,
Icons, 2004), Po žerjavici (On Tenterhooks, Selected
Poems, 2006), Stanja darežljivosti (States of Generosity,
2008). For the essays Spisi o apokalipsi (Essays about the
Apocalypse, 2000) he was nominated for the Marjan
Rožanc Prize.
Photo by Meta Jernejčič
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REPAR
Books in translation
Krehké pavučiny,
Bratislava: Drewo a srd,
2003
Gozdovi, ikone / Woods,
Icons, Ljubljana: Društvo
Apokalipsa, 2004
Šumi, ikoni / Gozdovi,
ikone / Woods, Icons,
Skopje: Blesok, 2007
Stanja darežljivosti,
Cetinje: Otvoreni
kulturni forum, 2007