Barbara Pogačnik

A poet, translator and literary critic. She graduated in Romance linguistics and literature from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and completed her MA at the Sorbonne in Paris. She has published four poetry books. Her poetry in translation has appeared in 26 languages. She has participated in more than 40 different literary manifestations in about 20 different countries, and has been writer in residence in several international programs. Her poems have also been made into music. She is member of several literary juries, of Slovenian Writer`s Association and Slovenian PEN.  She was director of the international festival Poets Translating Poets. From 2001 on, she is on the editorial board of a central Slovenian literary magazine Literatura and was the editor of the publication Litterae slovenicae edited by the Slovenian Writers` Association.