Hana Kovač

Slovenia, 1976

Hana Kovač was born in 1976 in Maribor, Slovenia. She graduated in cultural studies, and she studied film directing at Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, and linguistics of the speech and social communication theory in Ljubljana. She is a vice-president of Cultural-Artistic Association of Polica Dubova. She co-operates with various publishing houses and literary magazines as editor and translator. She writes poetry, film screenplays and scientific articles. Her poems were published in Slovenian reviews and translated into Irish (published in Lá, Dé Céadaoin, Dublinu), Serbian, Czech and Polish (Pobocza). She directed short documentary film The stolen children (Ukradeni otroci, TV Slovenija, 2002). She lives in Ljubljana and Maribor.