Cvetka Lipuš

Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966) 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 lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt, continuing her studies in literary criticism, Slavic studies, and library science at the University of Vienna and University of Klagenfurt, and in Pittsburgh, where she currently lives.

She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first collection, V Lunini senci (In the Shadow of the Moon) in 1985. Four years later Pragovi Dneva (Thresholds of the Day) was published, which was followed by Doba temnjenja (The Era of Darkening) in 1993. Her fourth volume of poems, Geografija bližine (The Geography of Closeness), appeared in 2000. In 2003, she published Spregatev milosti (Conjugating Mercy).

Lipuš has received numerous prizes, and her poems have been translated into several other languages, including English, German, and Bulgarian.

External links

• Untem Schutzdach der Liebe. Eine Annäherung an die Kärntner Lyrikerin Cvetka Lipus Article in the newspaper Wiener Zeitung, April 21, 2000