Marjan Strojan

Who is Marjan Strojan?

Marjan Strojan is a Slovene poet, journalist and translator. He has published a number of collections of his own poetry and also translates English and American poets into Slovene.

Strojan was born in 1949. He studied Comparative literature and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a journalist at the Slovene section of the BBC World Service and now works at Radio Slovenija. He has translated Chaucer's Cantebury Tales, Beowulf, poems by Robert Frost, James Joyce and Milton's Paradise Lost into Slovene and also received awards for his translations. Since 2009 he is president of the Slovenian section of PEN International. He is an honorary fellow of the University of Iowa and the Hong Kong Baptist University.

In 2000 he won the Veronika Award for his poetry collection Parniki v dežju.