Peter Semolič, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Semolič

Poet and translator

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1967

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Profession: poet, translator, linguist

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Peter Semolic (born 1 February 1967) is a Slovene poet and translator.
He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poems have been translated into English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Finnish, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
He translates from English, French, Serbian and Croatian and also writes radio plays and children's literature.Semolic was born in Ljubljana in 1967 and studied Linguistics and Sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana.
In 1997 he won the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Hiša iz besed (House Made of Words) and in 2001 the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Krogi na vodi (Circles Upon the Water).