Simona Škrabec

Simona Škrabec (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1968) is a Slovene literary critic, essayist and translator who lives and works in Barcelona. She spent her childhood in the small town of Ribnica in theregion of Lower Carniola. She lives in Barcelona since 1992. Skrabec has translated several books from Slovenian to Catalan and from Catalan to Slovenian. In addition to these two languages, she is fluent in Spanish, German, English, French, Serbian, and Croatian.

Simona Škrabec, Barcelona, 2019

Life and career

Simona Škrabec was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has lived in Barcelona since 1992. At the University of Ljubljana, she received a BA in German philology and comparative literature. In 2002, she obtained a PhD in comparative literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She is a professor at Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona. Her main interests are the European literature of 20th century and the relation of literature with the construction of historic memory and identity. In 2014, she was elected chair of PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee.

She is the author of the books L'estirp de la solitud (Lineage of Solitude, 2003), L'atzar de la lluita (Of Chance and Struggle, 2005) and Una Pàtria prestada (Borrowed Homeland, 2017). With Arnau Pons she directed an extensive project about cultural exchange between Germany and Catalonia in the 20th century (Grenzen sind Straßen, 2007–2008, 2 vols.).

She has translated more than thirty books; among the most notable are translations of several books of Serbian and Slovenian authors into Catalan and Spanish (Kiš, Jančar, Pahor, and Šalamun), as well the translation of most important Catalan authors (Moncada, Cabré, Ferrater, Marçal, etc.) into Slovenian.

In translation she also participated in the joint study To Be Translated or Not to Be (2007, directed by Esther Allen) about the situation of literary translation in the globalized world and in the volume Constel·lacions variables (Variable constellations, 2012, with Teresa Irribaren) about the impact of digital media in internationalization of literature. In 2016 she directed the PEN International report Culture's Oxygen about the publishing industry in minority languages, commissioned by UNESCO.

She contributes essays and articles about literature in academic and cultural journals and is also a regular literary critic with various Barcelona based newspapers. She has been a member of the editorial board at the humanities journal L'Espill of the University of Valencia since 2007. She has also acted as organizer of several cultural events and symposiums, as a result of which she edited the books Diàlegs sense fronteres (Dialogues without Borders, 2011), about foreign authors established in Barcelona and writing in Catalan, and Les distàncies d’Europa (The Distances in Europe, 2013), an interdisciplinary quest about Europe's future.

Publications

PhD in Comparative Literature

Authored books

Research reports

Coordinator of Collective Volumes
  • Carrers de frontera, Passatges de la cultura alemanya a la cultura catalana, Volume II, curated with Arnau Pons. Barcelona: GenCat, Institut Ramon Llull (2008)
  • Carrers de frontera. Passatges de la cultura alemanya a la cultura catalana, Volume I, curated with Arnau Pons. Barcelona: GenCat, Institut Ramon Llull (2007)

Translations (Selection)

Catalan translations
  • Ernest Cassirer; Martin Heidegger. «La controvèrsia de Davos». L’Espill, 54-55, p. 191-210. (2017)
  • Tomaž Šalamun. Balada per a la Metka Krašovec [Balada za Metko Krašovec, 1981]. Barcelona: LaBreu. (2016)
  • Danilo Kiš. Una tomba per a Boris Davidovič [Grobnica Borisa Davidoviča, 1976]. Manresa: Angle (2016)
  • Achille Mbembe. «Necropolítica». L’Espill, 53, p. 5-36. (2016)
  • Snježana Kodrić. «El serbocroat avui, entre aspiracions polítiques I fets lingüístics». L’Espill, 49, p. 35-45. (2015)
  • Brane Mozetič. El país de les bombes, el país dels prats [Dežela bomb, dežela trav, 2013]. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra. (2014)
  • Drago Jančar. Aurora boreal. Barcelona: Edicions 1984. (2014)
  • Franco Moretti. «Sobre l’evolució literària». L'Espill, 43, p. 151-167. (2013)
  • Aleš Debeljak. «La república de les lletres». L’Espill, 41, p. 113-115. (2012)
  • Fredric Jameson. «La literatura del Tercer Món». L’Espill, 35, p. 27-50. (2010)
  • Brane Mozetič. Banalitats [Banalije, 2003; Še banalije, 2005, selecció]. Vic: Cafè Central; Eumo (Jardins de Samarcanda, 54). (2009)
  • Aleš Debeljak. La neu de l’any passat [Somrak idolov, Lanski sneg, Evropa brez Evropejcev, selection] Palma: Lleonard Muntaner (Traus, 4). (2007)
  • Svetlana Makarovič. El forn d’en Musaranya [Pekarna Mišmaš, 1974]. Illustrators by Mercè Arànega. Barcelona: Barcanova. (2006)
  • Drago Jančar. Katarina, el paó i el jesuïta [Katarina, pav in jezuit, 2000]. Lleida: Pagès Editors. (2005)
  • Boris Pahor. Necròpolis [Nekropola, 1997]. Lleida: Pagès Editors. (2004)
  • Svetlana Makarovič; Brane Mozetič. He somniat que havies mort. Barcelona: ILC i Emboscall [with Vicent Alonso, Staša Briški, Aurora Calvet, Jaume Creus, Feliu Formosa, Txema Martínez, Melcion Mateu, Francesc Parcerisas, Tanja Pavlica and Iolanda Pelegrí]. (2004)
  • Danilo Kiš. Una tomba per a Boris Davidovič [Grobnica Borisa Davidoviča, 1976]. Manresa: Angle. (2003)
  • Drago Jančar. La mirada de l'àngel [Pogled angela, 1992; “Smrt pri Mariji Snežni”]. Manresa: Angle. (2003)

Spanish translations

Slovenian translations
  • Maria Barbal. Intimna dežela [País íntim, 2005]. Ljubljana: Študentska Založba. (2016)
  • Manuel Molins. Abu Magrib [Abu Magrib, 2002]. Sodobna drama v Španiji. Maribor: Litera, 99-216. (2014)
  • Blai Bonet. Morje [El mar, 1958]. Ljubljana: Center za slovensko književnost. (2014)
  • Josep Maria Benet i Jornet . Želja [Desig, 1991]. Sodobna drama v Španiji. Maribor: Litera, 27-98. (2014)
  • Llorenç Villalonga. Bearn ali sobana porcelanastih lutk [Bearn o la sala de nines, 1956]. Ljubljana: Študentska Založba (Beletrina, 329). (2012)
  • Maria-Mercè Marçal. Pasijon po Renée Vivien [La passió de Renée Vivien, 1994]. Ljubljana: Škuc (Lambda; 91). (2011)
  • Maria Mercè Marçal. Staljeni led [Desglaç, 1988]. Ljubljana: Škuc, (Lambda, 78). (2009)
  • Maria Barbal. Kamen v melišču [Pedra de tartera, 1985]. Ljubljana: Študentska Založba (Beletrina, 210). (2008)
  • Gabriel Ferrater. Ženske in dnevi [Les dones i els dies, selecció, 1968] Ljubljana: Center za slovensko književnost, (Aleph, 116). (2007)
  • Jaume Cabré. Evnuhova senca [L’ombra de l’eunuc, 1996]. Ljubljana: Študenska Založba (Beletrina, 149). (2006)
  • Lluís Maria Todó. Igra izmišljevanja [El joc del mentider, 1994]. Ljubljana: Center za slovensko književnost (Aleph, 41). (2005)
  • Jesús Moncada. Proti toku [Camí de sirga, 1988]. Ljubljana: Študentska Založba (Beletrina, 110). (2004)
  • J.V. Foix. Dnevnik iz leta 1918 [Darrer comunicat, 1970; Tocant a mà, 1972]. Ljubljana: Center za slovensko književnost (Aleph, 84). (2003)
  • Pere Calders. Kronike prikrite resnice [Cròniques de la veritat oculta, 1955]. Ljubljana: Center za slovensko književnost (Aleph, 71). (2002)

Communications and presentations (Selection)
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