Zbornik Mednarodnega literarnega srečanja Vilenica 2004 - Ljudmila

Juris Kronbergs je pesnik, svobodni novinar in prevajalec. Rodil se je leta
1946 v latvijski družini na Švedskem. Na stockholmski univerzi je študiral
literaturo in baltske jezike, pa tudi teorijo prevajanja in poezijo 20. stoletja
v Cambridgeu. Konce osemdesetih in na začetku devetdesetih let prejšnjega
stoletja je delal v latvijski sekciji švedskega radia ter kot prevajalec
švedskega parlamenta, vlade in nordijskega ministrskega sveta. Deset let
je delal v diplomaciji kot latvijski kulturni ataše na Švedskem. Bil je
predsednik latvijskega PEN centra, je častni član latvijske akademije. Prejel
je odlikovanji, latvijski red treh zvezd in švedski red severnice, pa tudi več
štipendij in nagrad za prevode tako v Latviji kot na Švedskem, med drugim
nagrado za najboljšo latvijsko pesniško zbirko leta (1997 za Volk Eno-oko).
Objavil je deset pesniških zbirk, od tega eno na Švedskem in eno dvojezično,
pa tudi poezijo na kompaktni plošči (eno v Latviji in eno na Švedskem).
Objavil je več kot dvajset knjižnih prevodov poezije, večinoma latvijskih
pesnikov v švedščini, pa tudi švedskih pesnikov v latvijščini.
A poet, free-lance journalist and translator. He was born 1946 in Sweden,
in a Latvian family. He studied Literature, Nordic and Baltic languages at
the University of Stockholm, as well as theory of translation and 20 th Century
poetry at Cambridge, England. At the end of the 1980s and the beginning
of 1990s he worked in the Latvian section of Radio Sweden, and as
an interpreter for the Swedish Parliament, the Swedish Government and
The Nordic Council of Ministers. For ten years he served as a diplomat – as
Cultural Attaché at the Latvian Embassy in Sweden. He has been the President
of the Latvian PEN centre. He is a honorary member of the Academy
of Science of Latvia, he has received the Latvian Three Star order, the
Swedish North Star order, several scholarships and prizes for poetry and
translation in Latvia and in Sweden, among them the prize for best poetry
collection of the year in Latvia (1997) for the collection Wolf One-Eye. He
has published ten collections of poetry, of them one in Swedish and one
bilingual, as well as poetry on CD (one in Latvia and one in Sweden). He
has published more than twenty books of poetry translations, mostly
Latvian poetry into Swedish, but also Swedish poetry into Latvian.
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