Lucija Stupica

Lucija Stupica is a Slovene poet and interior designer currently living in Sweden. Having studied architecture in Ljubljana, she wrote articles on interior deign and architecture, and designed public and private interiors. She co-founded the Prangr Festival in Slovenia, an annual gathering of poets, literary critics and poetry translators and was its co-organiser from 2004-2010. From 2007 to 2009, she was also Vice -President of the Slovene Writers’ Association.

Stupica started publishing her poems in literary journals in 1997 and her debut collection, Cello in the Sun (2000) won her both the Golden Bird Award for an outstanding artistic achievement and the Slovene Book Fair Award for the best first collection of the year. It was followed by three more poetry collections, The Windcatcher (2004), The Island, the City, and Others (2008) and Vanishing Points (2019), all of which have been translated into several languages. She is the recipient of several writer’s scholarships and has been writer-in-residence in Berlin, New York City, Krems an der Donau and Visby, Gotland.