Ivan Dobnik rođen 1960. godine u Celju. Pesnik, urednik,
prevodilac, esejista i književni kritičar. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Ljubljani
je studirao filozofiju i komparativnu književnost. U periodu od 1988 – 1995.
bio je zaposlen u biblioteci Bežigrad. Bio je član uredništva časopisa Apokalipsa (1998 – 2008), idejni
pokretač i odgovorni urednik časopisa Poetikon
(2005 - ) suosnivač Književnog društva
Hiša poezije (2006 - ). Objavio je pesničke zbirke Osvobajanje (Oslobađanje),
1980; Kaligrafija lire (1999), Zapreš svoje oči (Sklopiš svoje oči), 2003; nominacija za Veronikinu nagradu 2004; Rapsodija v mrzli zimi (Rapsodija u hladnu zimu), 2005; na
francuskom i slovenačkom Rhapsodie dans
un hiver froide / Rapsodija v mrzli zimi (2006); Zapisi z drevesnih lističev (Zapisi
sa listova drveća), 2006; na nemačkom i slovenačkom zajedno sa Andrejom
Medvedom i Miklavžem Komeljom Stimmen
slowenischer Lyrik / Glasovi slovenske poezije I (2007), Svetilnik (Svetionik), 2008; Bela pesem
(Bela pesma), 2009; Spiva na zadnji obali / Wir schlafen an der
letezen Küste (Rimbach, 2009) i Rapsodija
v mrazovitata zima (Sofija, 2010). Njegove pesme su prevedene na brojne
jezike. Živi i stvara u Šmatevžu (Savinjska dolina) i u Ljubljani.
(prev. Ana
Ristović)
Ivan
Dobnik, born in 1960 in Celje, is a poet,
editor, translator, essay author, and literary critic. He studied philosophy
and comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of
Ljubljana. In the years 1988 to 1995 he worked at the Bežigrad Library. He was
on the editorial board of the literary magazine Apokalipsa from 1998 to 2008 and is the founder and chief editor of
the literary magazine Poetikon
(2005-present) as well as co-founder of the Literary Association House of
Poetry (2006-present). He has published the following works: Osvobajanje (‘Liberation’, 1980), Kaligrafija lire (‘Caligraphy of the
Lyre’, 1999), Zapreš svoje oči
(‘Closing Your Eyes’, 2003; nominated for the Veronika Award in 2004), the
French-Slovene Rhapsodie dans un hiver
froid / Rapsodija v mrzli zimi (‘Rhapsody in a Cold Winter’, 2006), Zapisi z drevesnih lističev (‘Tree Leaf
Notes’, 2006), the German-Slovene Stimmen
slowenischer Lyrik / Glasovi slovenske poezije 1 (‘Voices of Slovene Poetry 1’ , 2007; with Andrej Medved
and Miklavž Komelj), Svetilnik (‘The
Lighthouse’, 2008), the Slovene-German Spiva
na zadnji obali / Wir schlafen an der letzten Küste (‘We Sleep on the Last
Shore’, 2009, Bela pesem (‘A White
Poem’, 2009), Rapsodia v mrazovitata
zima (Sofia, 2010), Laubschriften
(2010), and Pred začetkom (‘Before the Beginning’, 2010). His poems
are translated into several languages. He
lives and writes in Ljubljana.
(prev. Tanja Dominko)
