Love After LovePaperback, 22 September 2021

Ilma Rakusa was born in Slovakia, and grew up in Budapest, Ljubljana, and Trieste before moving with her parents to Zurich. In 1977, she made her debut with the German-language poetry collection titled "Just Like Winter." Since then, she has published a number of further collections, including "One Stroke through Everything" (Suhrkamp, 1997; in English translation, "A Farewell to Everything", Shearsman Books, 2005), and "Love After Love" (Suhrkamp, 2001), as well as books of prose, including essays. Ilma Rakusa is a literary translator from Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian and French, and has been teaching Eastern European literature in Swiss universities. She lives in Zurich.