Cvetka Lipuš
Cvetka Lipuš is an Austrian poet writing in Slovenian.
She was born in Bad Eisenkappel in the Austrian state of Carinthia and is the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian author Florjan Lipuš. She attended the high school for Slovenes in Klagenfurt. She studied comparative literature and Slavic studies at the University of Vienna and University of Klagenfurt. She lived in the United States from the early 1990s to 2009 and studied library and information sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Salzburg, Austria, in 2009.
She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first collection, V lunini senci in 1985. Four years later Pragovi dneva was published, which was followed by Doba temnjenja in 1993. Her fourth volume of poems, Geografija bližine, appeared in 2000. In 2003, she published Spregatev milosti. This was followed by Obleganje sreče, Pojdimo vezat kosti, and Kaj smo, ko smo of which the English translation was nominated for the Canadian 2019.
Lipuš has received numerous prizes, and her poems have been translated into several other languages, including English, German, and Bulgarian.
