Tomaž Šalamun

Tomaž Šalamun is a Slovenian poet. He was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He has published 30 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 Slovenian Embassy in New York. He has had ten 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), "Row!" (Arc Publications), "The Book for My Brother" (Harcourt), and "Woods and Chalices" (Harcourt). He lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is married to the painter Metka Krašovec.

External links

* [http://tomazsalamun.com Tomaž Šalamun Official Home Page]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1226355,00.html "Guardian" article on Salamun]
* [http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/poets/tsalamun.html Salamun bio at Smith College Poetry Center]