Barbara Pogačnik

1973, Slovenia

Born in 1973. She is a translator, author of essays and editor. She graduated on Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, taught in Department of Translations on the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, she received her master's degree on Sorbonne in Paris. She is a member of editorial comittee for magazine Literatura. She is translating poetry to and from French language (Pierre Reverdy, Henri Michaux, O. V.de L. Miłosz, Michel Deguy, Jacques Izoard, Eugène Savitzkaya, Nicole Brossard and others), she also translates philosophy and essays (Maurice Blanchot, Paul Ricœur, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Lacan). As co-editor for publication DSP Litterae Slovenicae, she prepared first selection of Slovenian women poets for foreign readers in English and French translation. Her poems were published in leading Slovenian magazines Literatura, Nova revija, Apokalipsa and Sodobnost, she introduced herself on poetry readings in Ljubljana (Mesto žensk, Mlade rime, Literaturina branja), with participation in international poetry meeting and translation workshop Zlati čoln, festival Printemps des poètes in Paris and state institute Inalco in Paris. Her poetry collection Poplave (Floods) came out in 2006 by the publishing house Mladinska knjiga.