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Ciril Bergles was born in 1934 in Repče near Ljubljana. He spent the greater part of his youth in Vrhnika, where he managed an amateur theatre mostly staging Cankar’s plays. Bergles graduated from the Poljane grammar school and obtained a BA in the Slavic and English languages from the Faculty of Art, Ljubljana University. He also studied directing at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. For a number of years he was a teacher and principal at various Ljubljana schools. Now he mostly writes poetry, which he started publishing relatively late. He has published twelve collections of poetry and fourteen translations from Spanish and Hispanic poetry. He has also edited an anthology of Slovenian émigré poetry of the last forty years entitled This Tree Grows Abroad.

Published abroad

Ellis Island, poetry. Translated by Jože Žohar. Sydney: Aleph/SALUK, 1988.

Available translation

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