"Poems that Remind Us that Man Is Not an Island, but that We Are All a Piece of the Continent": Cankar Award to Barbara Korun

The Cankar Award for the best original literary work of the past year was awarded last night to Barbara Korun for her poetry collection Vnazaj, her eighth poetry collection, which addresses the theme of dying and accompanying a loved one to death.

The Cankar Prize for the best original literary work of the past year was awarded tonight to Barbara Korun for her poetry collection Vnazaj. In the poetry collection, she speaks about the pain of her mother's death, and the central motif is intertwined with the death of faith in humanity during the genocide in Gaza and other wars around the world, the citation says. The prize is worth 8,000 euros.