Freedom

Ana Jelnikar is a translator and scholar, based in Ljubljana. She is the author of Universalist Hopes in India and Europe; The Worlds of Rabindranath Tagore and Srečko Kosovel (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2016). As a literary translator she has a number of publications to her name including Look Back, Look Ahead: Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel (co-translated with Barbara Siegel Carlson, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Meta Kušar Ljubljana (co-translated with Stephen Watts, Arc Publications, 2010) and Iztok Osojnik’s Drugje/Elsewhere (co-translated with Maria Jastrzȩbska, Pighog Press, 2011).

Stephen Watts’s most recent books are Journeys Across Breath : Poems 1975-2005 & Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds (both published by Prototype). A film was made of the latter by Huw Wahl in 2019. A Book Of Drawn Poems & Poems 2006-2025 are forthcoming. His ‘Bibliography Of Modern Poetry In English Translation’ (a 40 years ongoing project) was the subject of an exhibition with the Swiss artist Hannes Schupbach who printed its 2000 pages as artist books : a paperback edition will be published in multiple volumes by Tenement Press from 2024. He has also published co-translations inter alia of the Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh, the Syrian poet Golan Haji, the Iranian poets Ziba Karbassi, Esmail Kh’oi & Reza Baraheni, the Yiddish poet AN Stencl & many others. He worked with Ana Jelnikar on Meta Kušar’s Ljubljana (Arc Publications 2010).