Urska Sterle
Urska Sterle is award winning author of short fiction, translator, video artist and performer. For her debut, a collection of short stories Vrsta za kosilo (Queuing for lunch), published by SKUC-Vizibilija, Ljubljana, 2006, she was nominated for the award Fabula for best collection of short fiction in Slovene literature in 2007. The same year she won Zlata ptica, an award for modern art. Her next book of short stories Konstantno vojno stanje (Constant Warefare) will be published in December 2010.
Apart from her writing and translating (Sarah Schulman, Djuna Barnes, Audre Lorde) she does political stand-up comedies and other performances. This year she is touring with her monodrama “Lezbicne pravljice, pravljice za lezbijke” (Lesbian fairytales, fairytales for lesbians).
News
Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.
This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and Pelin Özer (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening. Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.
Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.