Klemen Pisk
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Life and work
In the mid-1990s, Pisk was a member of the editorial staff of the main Slovene student newspaper Tribuna.[1] While studying Slavistics in Ljubljana, he devoted most of his time to the Polish language and literature.[2]
As a poet, he entered the Slovenian literary scene with his first collection Labas vakaras (Good Evening, 1998), followed by Visoko in nagubano prapočelo (High and Wrinkled Primordial Substance, 2000) and Mojster v spovednici (Master in the Confessional Box, 2002).[3]
From 2000 to 2004, he wrote book reviews for the daily newspaper Delo and Radiotelevizija Slovenija (Radio-Television Slovenia).[3] Pisk's short story Vilnius was published in the American literary journal Fiction Fix in 2009 and received the Editor's Choice Award.[4] In July 2012, he performed at the Authors' Reading Month festival, which was organized by the Czech publishing house Větrné mlýny which took place in Brno, Košice, Ostrava and Wrocław.[5] In 2014, he was chosen as a resident of Villa Sarkia[6] in Sysmä by the Finnish culture association Nuoren Voiman Liitto. Pisk's literary works have been translated into many languages and published in more than 20 foreign literary magazines (Manuskripte,[7] Lichtungen,[8] Lituanus,[9] Tvar, Arkadia, Fiction Fix etc). Translations of his books were published in Poland,[10] Slovakia,[11] Czech Republic[12] and in the United States.[13]
In the spring of 2003, he received the Institute of Cultural studies' scholarship in Warsaw as a literary translator from Polish.[14] From 2006 to 2009, he lived in Vilnius where he was perfecting his Lithuanian language.[15] In 2009 he attended the 2nd World Congress of Translators of Polish Literature.[16] In October 2015, he received the Award of Lithuanian Cultural Institute for merit at the promotion of Lithuanian literature in the world.[17]
He is a singer, guitarist and author of most songs for the band Žabjak Trio, their published albums include Doktor piska počasni sving (The Doctor Pipes the Slow Swing) and Aristokrat (Aristocrat, 2004).[3]
Selected bibliography
Source[3]
Poetry
- Labas vakaras (Good evening), 1998
- Visoko in nagubano prapočelo (High and Wrinkled Primordial Substance), 2000
- Mojster v spovednici (Master in the Confessional Box), 2002
Short stories
- Pihalec (The Blower), 2008
Radio drama
- Lahko noč, Matija Čop (Good night, Matija Čop), 1997
- Ose pa ne letijo (And the Wasps Don't Fly), 1999
- Pihalec (The Blower), 2012
Literary critics
- Stihi pod nadzorom (The Poems under Control), 2004
Translated works
- Tych kilka słów (translated into Polish by Marcin Mielczarek), 2005
- Pustovník a vlk (translated into Slovak by Saša Poklač in Miloslav Vojtech), 2009
- Vilnius (translated into English by Shay Robert Wood), 2010
- Za krzakiem majaczącego ślimaka (translated into Polish by Marlena Gruda), 2015
- Foukač (translated into Czech by Petr Mainuš), 2015