Lucija Stupica is a poet, translator and interior designer. For several years, she wrote articles on interior design and architecture and has designed both private and public interiors. She started publishing her poems in literary journals in 1997. Her poetry debut Cello in the Sun (Čelo na soncu, 2000) won her both the Golden Bird Award for an outstanding artistic achievement and the Slovene Book Fair Award for the best debut book of the year. It was followed by The Windcatcher (Vetrolov, 2004), The Island, the City, and Others (Otok, mesto in drugi, 2008), Vanishing Points (Točke izginjanja, 2019), and Magnolia. Her Story (Magnolija. Njena zgodba, 2024). Stupica is the recipient of two notable international literary awards: the 2010 German “Hubert Burda” Award for young poetry and the 2014 Swedish “Klas de Vylder” Award for immigrant authors. Her books have been translated into Swedish, Spanish, English, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian, and her poems are represented in numerous international anthologies. Lucija Stupica lives in Sweden since 2012.
