Glorjana Veber, PhD,
writer,
contributor and honourable member of the Urban Book Circle
writer,
contributor and honourable member of the Urban Book Circle
Glorjana Veber (Slovenia, 1981) studied and graduated political
science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana,
where she is now also finishing her MA in Sociology (with a theme on the
influence of lifestyles on book purchases). At the same time, she is working on
a PhD in literature (Poetry as an element of social changes) at the Faculty of
Arts, University
of Ljubljana. She
publishes her poetry mainly in Slovene as well as in foreign literary magazines
and journals like Knjizevni casopis Sent
(Serbia), Sarajevskе sveskе (Bosnia and
Herzegovina), Republika poezija
(Bosnia and Herzegovina), Rukopisi
(Serbia), Cine qua non, bilingual arts
magazine (Portugal), DeZopilant
(France) etc. She received a few Slovene and foreign poetry awards, among
others she won first place at an international competition for young poets from
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia (2008) as well as third place at the
Slovene competition for poetry held by The Association of Primorska Literary
Authors (Zdruzenje primorskih knjizevnikov)
at Anabdi Festival. In 2009, after being chosen in a competition, she
represented Slovenia in
poetry as one of the 700 poets and artists
from 48 countries at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. In the same year she was invited to Serbia by the international competition for
young poets from the area of former Yugoslavia
(Anthology Rukopisi) as the one poet
chosen from Slovenia.
In 2011 she was chosen for the final selection of the international competition
Devinski grad from 1200 poets from
the whole world. She is the co-founder of the Association for Contemporary Arts
Aggressive Theatre (Drustvo za sodobne
umetnosti Aggressive Theatre; 2007) and the founder of the Institute for
Researching Innovative Arts (IRIU Institute – Inspiration, Research, Innovation, Arts; 2009), where she is
mostly engaged in developing experimental and innovative projects from the area
of arts, mostly literature. The Centre for Slovenian Literature (Center za slovensko knjizevnost)
published her debut poetry collection titled The Free Fall (Prosti pad) in June 2013. She is an honourable member of the Urban Book Circle (Canada).
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