Member: rolig

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Favorite authorsAnna Akhmatova, Evgeny Baratynsky, Elizabeth Bishop, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Alan Hollinghurst, Edvard Kocbek, Marianne Moore, Lexandr Sergejevič Puškin (Shared favorites)

About meI am a translator (from Slovene and Russian to English), originally from Baltimore, Maryland. My interests include contemporary art, classical Greece, Russian literature, Central and Eastern Europe, translation. I have a particular interest in the 19th-century Russian poet Evgeny Baratynsky (pictured), and am preparing a translation of his poetry.

Current reading: Edvard Kocbek, Strah in pogum; Lojze Kovačič, Resničnost; Suzana Tratnik, Na svojem dvorišču

Some favorite quotations:
It could be a good day; it needs to be treated carefully.
- Michael Cunningham, The Hours.

You will find no comfort here,
In the kingdom of bang and blab.
- Theodore Roethke, "The Lost Son: I. The Flight"

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought.
– Robert Graves, The White Goddess

About my libraryRussian literature (esp. Pushkin period and "Silver Age" poets); Slovene writing; poetry; 19th and 20th century "classic" fiction; art; art history; Ancient Greece; European history; gay fiction and poetry; gay history; philosophy; Zen Buddhism.

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Real nameRawley

LocationLjubljana, Slovenia

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Member sinceApr 1, 2007

Currently readingIvan Cankar [Selected Works] by Ivan Cankar
The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics) by Colette
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes
History in English Words by Owen Barfield
Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Na svojem dvorišču by Suzana Tratnik
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