Cvetka Lipus
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Cvetka Lipuš is an Austria
n poet writing in Slovenian
.
She was born in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla
in the Austrian province of Carinthia
as the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian
author Florjan Lipuš
. She attended the lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt
, continuing her studies in literary sciences, Slavic studies and librarian sciences at the University of Vienna
, University of Klagenfurt
and in Pittsburgh
, where she currently lives.
She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first collection, V Lunini senci ("In the Shadow of the Moon") in 1985. Four years later Pragovi Dneva ("Barriers of Day") was published, which was followed by Doba temnjenja ("The Era of Darkening") in 1993. Her fourth volume of poems, Geografija bližine ("Geography of Closeness") appeared in the year 2000. In 2003, she published Spregatev milosti.
Cvetka Lipuš has received numerous prizes, and her poems are translated in several other languages including English
, German
, and Bulgarian
.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n poet writing in Slovenian
Slovenian language
Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...
.
She was born in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla
Bad Eisenkappel
Bad Eisenkappel, also known as Eisenkappel, is a municipality located in the Vellach Valley in the Karawanken mountain range with the nearby peaks: Obir, Peca, and Olševa...
in the Austrian province of Carinthia
Carinthia (state)
Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...
as the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian
Carinthian Slovenes
Carinthian Slovenes are the Slovene-speaking population group in the Austrian State of Carinthia. The Carinthian Slovenes send representatives to the National Ethnic Groups Advisory Council...
author Florjan Lipuš
Florjan Lipuš
Florjan Lipuš, born 4 May 1937 in Lobnig above Bad Eisenkappel, Austria, is a Carintian Slovene writer and translator. Since 1985 he has been a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts- References :...
. She attended the lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt
-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...
, continuing her studies in literary sciences, Slavic studies and librarian sciences at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, University of Klagenfurt
University of Klagenfurt
The University of Klagenfurt was founded in 1960 in Klagenfurt, Austria. It began as a College of Educational Studies . Since October 2004 the official German name is Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in order to stress the intercultural connections between the Alpine regions and the Adriatic Sea...
and in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, where she currently lives.
She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first collection, V Lunini senci ("In the Shadow of the Moon") in 1985. Four years later Pragovi Dneva ("Barriers of Day") was published, which was followed by Doba temnjenja ("The Era of Darkening") in 1993. Her fourth volume of poems, Geografija bližine ("Geography of Closeness") appeared in the year 2000. In 2003, she published Spregatev milosti.
Cvetka Lipuš has received numerous prizes, and her poems are translated in several other languages including English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, and Bulgarian
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
.
External links
- Untem Schutzdach der Liebe. Eine Annäherung an die Kärntner Lyrikerin Cvetka Lipus Article in the newspaper Wiener Zeitung, April 21, 2000