Project Description
Milan Šelj, Poet, translator and publicist, graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1985 (Comparative Literature and Sociology). Milan has been living and working in London since 1992. His first collection of poetry Darilo (Gift) was published by ŠKUC-Lambda in 2006. Critically well received, it was described as one of the most explicitly homoerotic poetry books in Slovenia thus far. His second poetry collection Kristali soli (Crystals of Salt) followed in 2010, Gradim gradove (Building Buildings) in 2015, Slediti neizgovorjenemu (Tracing the Unspoken) in 2018 and Jezik je ključ (Language is the Key) in 2023, all published by ŠKUC-Lambda.
His poems were translated into several languages. Poems in a Hebrew translation were published in an anthology Cavafy’s Sons and Grandsons in Israel in 2015. A substantial selection of his poems in Italian translation are in the Magazine Fili d’aquilone and in English translation in The Riveter magazine in the UK.
His fourth collection of poetry Tracing the Unspoken was published in English translation by A Midsummer Night’s Press in New York.
A poetry collection Do mraza by Romeo Mihaljević in his translation was published by Aleph publishing house in Ljubljana in 2022. He is currently preparing his second illustrated book of poems for children.