[New York, NY]

Tone Škrjanec
November 9, 2015, 7:00 pm
at KGB Bar

reading with Fanny Howe at KGB bar. Fanny Howe has written several books of poetry, essays and fiction. These include One Crossed Out, The Lyrics, Come and See, and Second Childhood, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 2015.. She has won the Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry in 2009 and was a Finalist, in 2015, for The International Man Booker Award for her fiction. She lives in Boston. Tone Škrjanec, the noted poet and translator, was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1953, and is widely regarded as belonging to the literary vanguard of his generation. He graduated in Sociology from the University of Ljubljana, had a short career teaching, and worked as a journalist for ten years. Since 1990, he has been a program coordinator at the Cultural Centre KUD France Prešeren in Ljubljana. His first volume of poetry to appear in English, Skin, was translated from the Slovene by Matthew Rohrer and Ana Pepelnik. more info here