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.
