Maribor Is The Future

Pranger is an international festival of poets, critics and translators, which is unique in its focus on reflection and translation of poetry. This year it focused also on Basque language(Euskara)and hosted two internationally renowned writers, translators and literary critics Juan Kruz Igerabide and Beñat Sarasola. When they visited Maribor, we invited them and the Slovenian translator Barbara Pregelj to an interesting debate on language, translation and poetry in our studio at YoureUp Radio in GT22, Maribor. Juan Kruz Igerabide: Juan Kruz Igerabide (born 24 March 1956, Aduna) is a writer who has published many works aimed at children and young people, but his literary career began with the adult literature. Originally he published a collection of poems for adults, titled Notre-Dameko oihartzunak (1984) which was followed Bizitzarekin solasean (1989), Sarean leiho (1994) and Mailu isila (2002) for which he received the Critics of Spain Award. He received the National Spanish Award for children literature in