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Vojan Tihomir Arhar: 4 Poems
Perhaps best known as an author of children's poetry, Vojan Tihomir Arhar (1922-2007) also published two poetry collections for adults. Along with his poems, his many collections of word-games and riddles continue to delight children today.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:50
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Aleš Debeljak: 7 Poems
Aleš Debeljak, a poet, cultural critic, and translator, has won a number of national and interenational awards for his work. He is a Director of the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:49
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Alojz Ihan : 4 Poems
Though born in 1961, Alojz Ihan evokes poets of previous generations in that he is also a medical doctor who specializes in immunology. He has published 6 books of poetry to date.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:48
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Gustav Januš: 1 Poem
A part of the Slovenian minority in the Austrian province of Koroška, Gustav Januš (1939) has been active as a poet and translator. In addition to working with words, he is also a renowned painter.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:47
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Milan Jesih: 1 Poem
The current president of the Slovenian Writers Association, Milan Jesih (1950) is a translator specializing in English and Russian. In addition to poetry, Jesih has written for the theatre. His Emperor's New Clothes is a favourite of at least one six-year-old Canadian-Slovenian girl.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:46
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Edvard Kocbek: 9 Poems
Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981) was active in an anti-Fascist organization during World War II. After the war, his book Strah in pogum (Fear and Courage) addressed taboo topics from Slovenian history.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:45
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Srecko Kosovel : 4 Poems
Like John Keats and Georg Büchner, Srecko Kosovel (1904-1926) proved massively influential during his short life. Much of his avant-garde poetry feels like it was written just yesterday, and many of his visual collages defy reproduction in mere text.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:44
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Kajetan Kovic: 15 Poems
Kajetan Kovic was born in Maribor (Slovenia's second-largest city and a 2012 European Capital of Culture) in 1931. He has worked in all literary genres, and children will best know him for Maèek Muri - Mury the Cat.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:43
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Cvetka Lipuš: 4 Poems
Cvetka Lipuš was born in in Austria (like Gustav Januš she is part of the Slovenian minority). After having studied information science in Pittsburgh, and after having lived many years in the United States, she know finds her home in Salzburg. She has seen her work translated into Bulgarian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Serbian and Slovakian.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:42
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Brane Mozetic;: 1 Poem
Like many of the Slovenian creators represented here, Brane Mozetic is also active as a translator from French. He has also edited an anthology of contemporary homoerotic poetry. His collection Obsession was published in French translation in 2002 by Quebec's Ecrits des Forges.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:41
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Uroš Mozetic: 2 Poems
Uroš Mozetic is a professor at the English Department of the University of Ljubljana. He has translated many leading poets from English into Slovenian – among them, Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and, perhaps most challengingly, E.E. Cummings.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:41
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Josip Osti: 1 Poem
Josip Osti was born in 1945 in Sarajevo, where he was also raised. He has worked as a poet, writer and translator in both Slovenian and Bosnian. In 1990 he moved to Slovenia.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:40
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Bojan Pisk :
Like Philip Larkin, Bojan Pisk (1933-2008) was a librarian as well as a poet. Unlike Philip Larkin, Pisk included children among his audience in a number of articles and games published in the classic children's magazine Ciciban.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:40
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Jure Potokar: 1 poem
Since his student years, Jure Potokar (1956) has been active in radio. A prolific translator as well as a poet, he has rendered over 60 works into Slovenian.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:39
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Tomaž Šalamun: 6 Poems
Tomaž Šalamun has published over 30 volumes of poetry in Slovenian and his work has probably been translated by more translators than any other Slovenian poet.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:38
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Brane Senegacnik: 1 Poem
Born in 1966 in Ljubljana, Brane Senegacnik is both a professor of classics at the University of Ljubljana and the editor-in-chief of Nova Revija (The New Review). His poetry has been translated into numerous languages, including French and Russian, Irish and Catalonian.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:37
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Gregor Strniša: 1 Poem
The son of a poet for children, Strniša (1930-1987) was born into a literary existence and grew up to become one of the leading literary figures in Slovenia. “There Was a Tiger Here,” both poem and translation, have been highly praised by none other than Charles Simic.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:36
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Vida Taufer: 1 Poem
One of Slovenia's first and most prominent female poets, Vida Taufer (1903-1966) worked as a teacher up until World War II. In the post-War years she was employed at the Ministry of Education. Poetry, which accompanied her throughout her life, is marked by both intimacy and social themes.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:34
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Maja Vidmar: 1 Poem
Maja Vidmar was born in 1961 in Nova Gorica on the Italian border. In 1999 she received an award from the Hubert Burda Foundation, and in 2005 she received the prestigious Jenko Prize from the Slovenian Writers' Association for her poetry collection Prisotnost ("Presence").
Sep 27, 2011, 07:33
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Dane Zajc: 8 Poems
Dane Zajc (1929-2005) was born in the village of Zgornja Javorščica in central Slovenia. A librarian by profession, he was a quintessential Slovenian poet, and the recipient of many awards. He also published many poems and fairy-tales for children.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:32
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Bine Štampe Žmavc: 6 Poems
Bine Štampe Žmavc was born in Celje in 1951. After studying comparative literature and literary theory in Ljubljana, she worked as a Slovenian teacher as well as in theatre, for which she wrote her first poems. She has created in all the three classical literary genres.
Sep 27, 2011, 07:31
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Slovenia. A Nation of Poets?
Slovenia, like many, many other small nations, claims to be a nation of poets. If you have four Slovenians in a room, it is said, you are guaranteed to have three poets. Since not every Slovenian scribbles verse, these statements are obviously not literal but metaphorical or illustrative.
Sep 22, 2011, 08:14
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