Veronika Dintinjana 
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Veronika Dintinjana 
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* 1977, Ljubljana, Eslovênia
vive em: Ljubljana, Eslovênia

Veronika Dintinjana, born in 1977, is a poet and translator. She was selected as the best young author in 2002 at the Festival of Young Literature. So far she has published her poems in the literature magazines Mentor, Literatura, Sodobnost, Nova Revija, Dialogi, Poetikon, Lirikon and Apokalipsa. In 2008 she won the Maribor poetry tournament and the 6th Ljubljana Poetry Slam. In September 2008, her first poetry collection, Rumeno Gori Grm Forzicij (Yellow Burns the Forsythia Bush), was published by Literatura and awarded the Best First Book award at the 24th Slovenian Book Fair.

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As a translator, she has published poems and essays by Louise Glück, Muriel Rukeyser, Denise Levertov and Ursula K. Le Guin, and co-translated the 20th century Irish poetry anthology, Čudovita Usta (Marvellous Mouth). She is a founder of the Kentaver cultural society and co-organizer of the monthly poetry reading series and of the festival Mlade Rime hosted at Metelkova. She currently lives and works in Ljubljana. Her other vocation is medicine.