University of Richmond Writers Series: Aleš Šteger & Polina Barskova March 23, 2011

Aleš Šteger has published five books of poetry, a novel and two books of essays in Slovenian. He received the 1998 Veronika Prize for the best Slovenian poetry volume of the year, the 1999 Petrarch Prize for young European authors and the 2007 Rozanceva Award for the best book of essays written in Slovenian. His work has been translated into 14 languages, including German, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian and Spanish. He is a founding editor of the Beletrina publishing house, and founded the Medana Days of Poetry and Wine festival. Šteger’s first book in English, “The Book of Things,” was published by BOA Editions in 2010.

Polina Barskova has published six books of poetry in Russian. She received her B.A. from St. Petersburg State University and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She currently teaches Russian literature at Hampshire College. Her scholarly publications include articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film and the aestheticization of historical trauma. Her first book of poetry in English, “This Lamentable City,” was published by Tupelo Press in 2010.