Paula Gruden | |
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Native name | Pavla Gruden |
Born | Ljubljana, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes | 14 February 1921
Died | 26 January 2014 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 92)
Occupation | Poet |
Language | English, Slovene |
Citizenship | Australian |
Genre | Haiku |
Paula Gruden or Pavla Gruden (14 February 1921 – 26 January 2014) [1] [2] [3] 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, [2] [4] and then she worked in Trieste as a secretary and translator for the Allied military administration. [2] Beginning in 1948, she lived and worked as a writer in Sydney, Australia. [4] [5] She founded the literary magazine Svobodni razgovori (Free Conversations) in 1982 and served as its editor. [6]
Gruden wrote in both English and her native Slovene. [6] [7] Gruden also translated from Slovene and Serbo-Croatian. [8] She is known among the Slovene community and in Australian literary circles as a prolific writer of the haiku poetic form. [2] [6] 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).