
Tomaž Šalamun
✶July 4, 1941
†December 27, 2014
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✶July 4, 1941
†December 27, 2014
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Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central Europe and an internationally acclaimed absurdist. His more than 50 books of Slovene poetry have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. His work has been called a poetic bridge between old European roots and America. Šalamun was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was married to the painter Metka Krašovec.
Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia
Biography from the article Tomaž Šalamun on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.