Meta Kušar (born in Ljubljana, 1952), poet and essayist, is the author of seven collections of poetry: Madeira (in bilingual editions: a Slovenian-English and Slovenian-Italian edition 1993), Svila in Lan/Silk and Flax (1997, Ljubljana), Ljubljana (2004, Ljubljana), and Jaspis/Jasper (2008, Ljubljana), Vrt/Garden (2014, Ljubljana), for which she was awarded the Veronika Best Poetry Collection of the Year Prize, Zmaj/Dragon (Litera 2021), and a book of collected poems. Her work has been translated into a number of European languages, including Polish, Czech and German, featuring in various anthologies. Kušar has also published a book of interviews called Interviews (2009, Ljubljana) and essays What is poetic or a lesson in what is illegal (2011, Ljubljana) for which she received the national award for the best book of essays for 2012.
