Simona Škrabec

Who is Simona Škrabec?

Simona Škrabec is a Slovene literary critic, essayist and translator who lives and works in Barcelona.

She was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to a Serbian father and a Slovene mother. She spent her childhood in the small town of Ribnica in the Lower Carniola region. She studied German language and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. In 1992, she moved to Barcelona, Spain. In 2002, she received a PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a thesis on identity signs in Central European literature.

She has translated several Slovene and Serbian authors to Catalan and Spanish, among them Boris Pahor, Drago Jančar, Aleš Debeljak and Danilo Kiš. With her translations, she also introduced notable Catalan authors, such as Pere Calders, Jesús Moncada, Josep Vicenç Foix, Lluís Maria Todó and Jaume Cabré to the Slovenian cultural scene. She also wrote several literary studies on Catalan, Spanish and Slovene literature. Her book L'estrip de la solitud won the Josep Carner Prize for literary theory.

She writes regular columns in both Catalan and Slovene literary magazines.