Schizofag is a chapbook, an anthology of Pograjc’s poems that focus on queerness and mental illness, translated into English. The chapbook is illustrated by Maja Poljanc and designed by Gal Grobovšek. In his first two collections, Pograjc writes about being queer, family dynamics that include alcoholism and cancer diagnoses, living with diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, and social issues through a confessional, diary-like style. His third book is an attempt at portraying these themes through a poetic voice that mimics the symptoms of a psychosis – megalomania, paranoia, delusion and the disintegration of boundaries between the self and the outside world.

Pino Pograjc, born in 1997 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, graduated from the University of Ljubljana with a double MA in English and Comparative Literature. In 2022, he published his first poetry collection, Trgetanje, for which he won the prize for the best literary debut. In 2024, he published his second collection, Trepete, and his third collection, Megalomast in Izbruhijada. He lives and works in Kamnik and Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Schizopeder je čepbuk, antologija Pograjčevih v angleščino prevedenih pesmi, osredotočenih na kvir tematike in tematike duševne bolezni. Čepbuk je ilustrirala Maja Poljanc, oblikoval ga je Gal Grobovšek. Pograjc v prvih dveh zbirkah skozi izpovedni, dnevniški slog piše o svojem kvirovstvu, družinskih dinamikah, ki vključujejo alkoholizem in diagnoze raka, življenju z diagnosticirano paranoidno shizofrenijo in družbenih temah. Njegova tretja knjiga je poskus upodabljanja teh tematik s poetičnim glasom, ki posnema simptome psihoze – megalomanijo, paranojo, blodnje in razpad meja med jazom in zunanjim svetom.

Pino Pograjc, rojen leta 1997 v Ljubljani, je magistriral iz angleščine in primerjalne književnosti na Univerzi v Ljubljani. Leta 2022 je objavil svojo prvo pesniško zbirko Trgetanje, za katero je prejel nagrado za najboljši literarni prvenec. Leta 2024 je objavil svojo drugo in tretjo zbirko, Trepete ter Megalomast in Izbruhijada. Živi in ​​dela v Kamniku ter Ljubljani.