Anja Golob (1976) has so far published four books of poetry - three in Slovene, one in German translation -, selections of poems and other texts in numerous magazines, and about 750 theatre critiques.
The second book was nominated for both Slovene poetry prizes, and was awarded the Jenko Poetry Prize 2014. The total of 350 copies is sold out.
In October 2016, the third Slovene book was awarded the Jenko Poetry Prize 2016. It was sold out in 3 months (400 copies). Reprint will be available in January 2017.
She works as poet, writer and translator. In 2013 she co-founded a small publishing house VigeVageKnjige, where she’s now the editor-in-chief. It specializes in publishing Slovene translations of graphic novels for both children and adults.
After studying Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (Slovenia), she worked as a theatre critic for 14 years, mainly publishing in Večer, the 2nd biggest Slovene daily. She occasionally still works as a dramaturg for contemporary art and dance performances.
She is fluent in English and German, reasonably cool in BHS, and understands some French. She lives between Ljubljana and Brussels. [Contact: anjagolob at protonmail dot ch]
She is deeply thankful at least to Ágota Kristóf, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Alfred Hitchcock, Ernst Lubitsch, Tomas Tranströmer, Nelly Sachs, Sylvia Plath, Else Lasker-Schüler, Srečko Kosovel, Mark Strand, Dane Zajc, Mila Kačič, William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, Georg Büchner, Georges Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Sapho, J. D. Salinger, J. M. Coetzee, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Rosa Luxemburg, Josef Koudelka, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vivien Maier, Baruch de Spinoza, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Mladen Dolar, la la la human steps, Radiohead, Raised by Swans, Explosions in the Sky, Wim Mertens, Tindersticks, Aaron Swartz, Alan Turing, Ljuba Prenner, EKV, Pina Bausch, Käthe Kollwitz, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Marko Jakše, Caster Semenya, Mukhtar Mai, Paradise Sorouri and Barbara Pušnik.