Moderated By: Selma Skenderovi /
John Phillips was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Ives at the Corn / Ampall and lives in the Headhouse. He has published the following books: Language Is, Modkhat Shape Sound, Heretic, Shape of Faith, and Language Being Time. His most recent release is Concrete. Some of his poems have been translated into Slovene, Serbian, German and Arabic.
Jonathan Le Modulis is an American poet. He is the author of Babel On, winner of the Lines + Stars mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series competition. Le case is also the editor of Federal Poet magazine, recipient of an arts and humanities commission Fellowship in the Arts and humanities, and recipient of the Golden haiku award. His poems have been published in a number of publications, among them, the Berkeley Poetry Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Hawai'i Review, Icelandic Review, the Northern Virginia Review, Orbis, " the Washington Writers Publishing House Anthology, and the Washington Post. He currently lives in Ljubljana.
Erica Johnson Debeljak has an unusual biography for a Slovenian writer. Born in San Francisco, California, she moved to NE Animatork in 1981, where she graduated from Columbia University and the University of NE Animatork, and moved to Slovenia in 1993 to marry poet ales Debeljak. Among her books are the Virgin, The Queen, The Widow, The Bitch (2021), which immediately became a bestseller and received the book of the Year award at 37. The Slovenian book fair, and I'm just passing by: postcards by Ales Debeljak (2018). Most recently, she published the novel only sex (2025). She writes in English and her works have been translated into Slovene. She is a member of the Slovenian Writers ' Association and International PEN. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Selma Skenderovi (2001) is a master's student in Slovene and Comparative Literature, translator, president of young PEN Slovenia and editor of Mentor magazine. As the youngest author at the age of 19, she won the festival of young literature Urska 2020. A year later, her short-lived debut album was released Why Are you silent, Hava?, which has been translated into several languages. In 2020 and 2021, she won the blitz award for Best Song. In 2022, the Slovenian book agency selected her for the Readers of Europe project with her book debut, in the same year she was nominated for the mira award and her book for the best literary debut, in 2023 she received the award for Best Young author at the Sarajevo Book Fair. In 2024, her novel and if everyone forgets was published at Cankar's publishing house. In 2025, JAK selected the novel for translation at 15. International Translation seminar of Slovenian literature.
The project is carried out in cooperation with Cankarjev Dom and The Danilo Kis Cultural Centre, a non-governmental institution working in the public interest in the field of culture.
Moderira: Selma Skenderović
John Phillips je bil rojen v St. Ivesu na Cornwallu in živi v Zglavnici. Objavil je naslednje knjige: Language Is, What Shape Sound, Heretic, Shape of Faith in Language Being Time. Njegova najnovejša izdaja je Concrete. Nekatere njegove pesmi so bile prevedene v slovenščino, srbščino, nemščino in arabščino.
Jonathan Lewis je ameriški pesnik. Je avtor knjige Babel On, zmagovalec natečaja Lines + Stars Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series. Lewis je tudi urednik revije Federal Poet, prejemnik štipendije Komisije za umetnost in humanistiko v Washingtonu ter prejemnik nagrade zlati haiku. Njegove pesmi so objavljene v številnih publikacijah, med njimi v Berkeley Poetry Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Hawai’i Review, Icelandic Review, Northern Virginia Review, Orbis, the Washington Writers Publishing House Anthology in the Washington Post. Trenutno živi v Ljubljani.
Erica Johnson Debeljak ima za slovensko pisateljico nenavaden življenjepis. Rodila se je v San Franciscu v Kaliforniji, leta 1981 se je preselila v New York, kjer je diplomirala na Univerzi Columbia in Univerzi v New Yorku, leta 1993 pa se je preselila v Slovenijo, da bi se poročila s pesnikom Alešem Debeljakom. Med njenimi knjigami sta Devica, kraljica, vdova, prasica (2021), ki je takoj postala uspešnica in prejela nagrado za knjigo leta na 37. Slovenskem knjižnem sejmu, ter Saj grem samo mimo: Razglednice Aleša Debeljaka (2018). Nazadnje je objavila roman Samo seks (2025). Piše v angleščini, njena dela pa so prevedena v slovenščino. Je članica Društva slovenskih pisateljev in mednarodnega PEN. Živi in dela v Ljubljani.
Selma Skenderović (2001) je magistrska študentka slovenščine in primerjalne književnosti, prevajalka, predsednica Mladega PEN Slovenije in urednica revije Mentor. Kot najmlajša avtorica je pri 19 letih zmagala na Festivalu mlade literature Urška 2020. Leto pozneje je izšel njen kratkoprozni prvenec Zakaj molčiš, Hava?, ki je bil preveden v več jezikov. V letih 2020 in 2021 je dobila nagrado blisk za najboljšo pesem. Javna agencija Republike Slovenije za knjigo jo je leta 2022 z njenim knjižnim prvencem izbrala za projekt Readers of Europe, istega leta je bila nominirana za nagrado mira, njena knjiga pa za najboljši literarni prvenec, leta 2023 je na knjižnem sejmu v Sarajevu prejela nagrado za najboljšo mlado avtorico. Leta 2024 je pri Cankarjevi založbi izšel njen roman In če vsi pozabijo. JAK je leta 2025 roman izbrala za prevajanje na 15. mednarodnem prevajalskem seminarju slovenske književnosti.
Projekt poteka v sodelovanju Cankarjevega doma in Kulturnega centra Danilo Kiš, nevladnega zavoda, ki deluje v javnem interesu na področju kulture.