Glorjana Veber

1981, Slovenia

Glorjana Veber (1981) graduated from political science at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, where she is now also finishing her MA in sociology (The influence of lifestyles on book purchases) and at the same time doing a PhD in literature (Poetry as an element of social changes) at Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She publishes her poetry in main Slovene as well as foreign literary magazines and journals. She received a few Slovene and foreign poetry awards, among others she won the first place at an international competition for young poets from Bosna and Herzegovina and Slovenia (2008) as well as third place at the Slovene competition for poetry held by The Association of Primorska Literary Authors (Združenje primorskih književnikov). In 2009, after being chosen in a competition, she represented Slovenia in poetry as one of the 700 artists from 48 countries at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. In the same year she was invited to Serbia by the international competition for young poets from the area of former Yugoslavia (Anthology Rukopisi) as the one poet chosen from Slovenia. In 2011 she was chosen for the final selection of the international competition Devinski grad from 1200 poets from the whole world. She is the founder and director of the Institute for Innovative Arts Research (IRIU) and director of Youth Center Celje. At IRIU Institute she is mostly engaged in developing experimental and innovative projects from the area of arts, mostly literature.

photo by Peter Giodani