Love After Love

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.