Uroš Zupan

Uroš Zupan (born 25 August 1963) is a Slovene poet and translator.

[1] Zupan was born in Trbovlje in 1963 and lived there until he went to study Comparative literature and Sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana.

He works as a translator from English, Croatian and Serbian into Slovene.

[2] He has translated works by Yehuda Amichai and John Ashbery into Slovene.

[3] In 1996 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Odpiranje delte (Opening the Delta)[4] and in 2000 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Drevo in vrabec (The Tree and the Sparrow).