Life and work
In the mid-1990s, Pisk was a member of the editorial staff of the main Slovene student newspaper Tribuna. [1] While studying Slavistics in Ljubljana, he devoted most of his time to the Polish language and literature. [2]
As a poet, he entered the Slovenian literary scene with his first collection Labas vakaras (Good Evening, 1998), followed by Visoko in nagubano prapočelo (High and Wrinkled Primordial Substance, 2000) and Mojster v spovednici (Master in the Confessional Box, 2002). [3]
From 2000 to 2004, he wrote book reviews for the daily newspaper Delo and Radiotelevizija Slovenija (Radio-Television Slovenia). [3] Pisk's short story Vilnius was published in the American literary journal Fiction Fix in 2009 and received the Editor's Choice Award. [4] In July 2012, he performed at the Authors' Reading Month festival, which was organized by the Czech publishing house Větrné mlýny which took place in Brno, Košice, Ostrava and Wrocław. [5] In 2014, he was chosen as a resident of Villa Sarkia [6] in Sysmä by the Finnish culture association Nuoren Voiman Liitto. Pisk's literary works have been translated into many languages and published in more than 20 foreign literary magazines (Manuskripte, [7] Lichtungen, [8] Lituanus, [9] Tvar, Arkadia, Fiction Fix etc). Translations of his books were published in Poland, [10] Slovakia, [11] Czech Republic [12] and in the United States. [13]
In the spring of 2003, he received the Institute of Cultural studies' scholarship in Warsaw as a literary translator from Polish. [14] From 2006 to 2009, he lived in Vilnius where he was perfecting his Lithuanian language. [15] In 2009 he attended the 2nd World Congress of Translators of Polish Literature. [16] In October 2015, he received the Award of Lithuanian Cultural Institute for merit at the promotion of Lithuanian literature in the world. [17]
He is a singer, guitarist and author of most songs for the band Žabjak Trio, their published albums include Doktor piska počasni sving (The Doctor Pipes the Slow Swing) and Aristokrat (Aristocrat, 2004). [3]
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