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Place of birth:
Street and number: Tomsiceva 12
Zip code: 1000
City:
Country:
Telephone number: +386 1 425
48 47
Fax:+ 386 1 425 48 47
E-mail: slopen@guest.arnes.si
Street and number: Bezigrad 18
Zip code: 1000
City:
Telephone number: +386 1 436
93 00
E-mail: barbara.korun@s5.net
Post in steering Committee or
other Committees of PEN Center: Secretary of Slovene PEN Center
Date of admission to PEN (d/m/y):
20th of Januar 2002
Education: She graduated in
the Slovene language and comperative literature.
Profession: Teacher of Slovene
language and literature at high school in
Working experience:
A poet and an essayist.
Literary style: Barbara Korun writes in very realistic manner about everyday
experiences of women in Slovenija.
Works published: Her
collection of poetry Ostrina miline
(The Edge of Grace) was published in
1999.
Works translated, edited or coordinated works: Her poems had been translated into English, Italian, German, Polish, Macedonian and Croat language and published in different reviews. She was published in collection book of International Poetry Festival Vilenica 2001, published by Slovene Writers' Association and in an anthology Ten Slovenian Poets of the Nineties published by Slovene Writers' Association in 2002.
Prizes, distinctions, scholarships: In 1999 her first collection of poetry was awarded as the best "maiden" book of the year.
Updated (d/m/y): 5th of February
2003