Marjan Strojan (born 16 August 1949) is a Slovene

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and

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. He studied

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and

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at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

and worked as a journalist at the Slovene section of the

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and as a film critic and literary editor at

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. He has written a number of volumes of poetry and translated

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Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer ( ; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...

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, Milton's

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and Sonnets as well as poems by William Shakespeare,

Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American Colloquialism, colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New E ...

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, Sydney Lea and others into Slovene. He has also edited and in part translated the first comprehensive anthology of English poetry in Slovene. Strojan has written a number of essays, papers and studies on English poetry and contributed to the South Slavic Miltoniana (v. Milton in Translation, OUP, 2016). From 2009 to 2016 he was the president of the Slovenian section of

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. In 2000 he won the Veronika Award for his poetry volume ''Parniki v dežju'' (Steamers in the Rain)., in 1995 and 2003 Sovre Translation Awards for Beowulf and Milton's Paradise Lost and the Prešeren Foundation Award for The Canterbury Tales in 2015.

Poetry collections

* ''Hribi, oblaki, lepo pozdrave'' (Hills, Clouds, Greetings) 2019 *''U većernjoj svetlosti'' (''In the Evening Light'', tr. by Milan Djordjević) 2018 *''Pesmi iz iger'' (Songs from Plays) 2017 *''Dells and Hollows'', tr. by the Author, 2015 *''V vetru in dežju'' (In Wind and Rain) 2015 *''El libro azul y otras poemas'', tr. by Teresa Kores 2012 *''In Ufriendly Weather, Four Slovenian Poets'', 2011 *''Vreme, kamni, krave'' (Weather, Stones, Cows), 2010 * ''Pokrajine s senco'' (Landscapes with Shadows), 2006 * ''Dan, ko me ljubiš'' (The Day You Love Me), 2003 * ''Vyleti do prirody'', tr. by František Benhart, 2002 * ''Parniki v dežju'' (Steamers in the Rain), 1999 * ''Drobne nespečnosti'' (Small Insomnias), 1991 * ''Izlet v naravo'' (Excursion into Nature), 1990

References

Slovenian poets Slovenian male poets Slovenian journalists Slovenian translators Living people 1949 births Veronika Award laureates University of Ljubljana alumni International Writing Program alumni {{slovenia-writer-stub