Paula Gruden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paula Gruden

Slovene-Australian poet

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1921

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 26-Jan-2014

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Paula Gruden

  • Paula Gruden or Pavla Gruden (14 February 1921 – 26 January 2014) was an Australian poet, translator, and editor of Slovene descent. Gruden was born in Ljubljana, at the time a town in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
  • During the Second World War she was transported to Germany for forced labor, and then she worked in Trieste as a secretary and translator for the Allied military administration.
  • Since 1948, she lived and worked as a writer in Sydney, Australia.
  • She founded the literary magazine Svobodni razgovori (Free Conversations) in 1982 and served as its editor.Gruden wrote in both English and her native Slovene.
  • Gruden also translated from Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.
  • She is known among the Slovene community and in Australian literary circles as a prolific writer of the haiku poetic form.
  • She was member of the Slovene Writers' Association. Gruden has been included into several anthologies, among them Antologija slovenskih pesnic (The Anthology of Slovene Woman Poets; Založba Tuma, 2004), Zbornik avstralskih slovencev (Anthology of Australian Slovenes; Slovenian-Australian Literary & Art Circle, 1988), Album slovenskih književnikov (Album of Slovene Literati; Mladinska Knjiga, 2006), Australian Made: A Multicultural Reader (University of Sydney, 2010), and Fragments from Slovene Literature: An Anthology of Slovene Literature (Slovene Writers Association, 2005).

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