Authors in residence

On the grounds of the project Crossroads of European Literature, which has been awarded the EU’s Culture Programme 2007-2013 grant, the Slovene Writers’ Association is organizing a possibility of residential stay in August and September for three writers from Italy and Ireland. Authors are invited to come and write in a foreign environment and thus bring a foreign influence into their literature. We are offering a one-month stay in the SWA’s apartment in the capital city of Ljubljana, in the SWA’s cottage by the beautiful Bled Lake, in the Writers’ Home in Beli Križ and in Layer’s House in Kranj, the city of France Prešeren, the greatest Slovene poet. All these places are very inspiring for creating new works. In collabortion with the European Department of the Gimanzija Koper Grammar School, the Vilenica Festival will stage a special reading by all three authors. The students will translate their texts under the guidance of Ines Cergol and meet with the authors during a short pre-festival literary translation workshop. Cristina Galvin and Roberto Nassi will resident in Slovenia for one month, while Tiziano Broggiato will join them for the Festival. Authors will appear at the literary reading in Koper on the opening day of the Festival.

Tiziano Broggiato (Italy)

Tiziano Broggiato was born in 1953 in Vicenza, and has lived there ever since. His collections of poetry include Parca lux (Modest Light, 2001), for which he received the Montale Award (2002) and the Italian Readers’ Award in the “Poetry for Schools” category (2002). His poems have been translated into many languages and published in several anthologies and magazines. The publication of his bilingual volume of the author’s selected poetry, published under the title Against the Light (2012) deserve to be mentioned particularly.

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Cristina Galvin (Ireland)

Cristina Galvin writes in a little room with a view of sea and the sky in the wild wests of Ireland. In 2009 she completed an MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her prose and poems have been published in anthologies for new writing and last year she won the Powers/Irish Times short story competition. She loves stories written from a child’s point of view, merging myth and fairy tale with everyday events and is currently working on a book of short stories which draws on these themes.

Roberto Nassi (Italy)

Roberto Nassi is the editor of the limited edition poetry art seriesI diamantini (Diamonds; Il Girasole Edizioni, Catania) and curator of the International Poetry Festival Flussidiversi. He has published several books of poetry and essays on 20th century poets and artists. For nearly eight years, he has been working on a monumental verse novel in four parts, entitled e niente è ciò che è(and nothing is what it is), which is due for publication in 2014.

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