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Slovene poet, writer, translator and journalist
Kajetan Kovič
Born (1931-10-21 ) 21 October 1931
Maribor ,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in
Slovenia )Died 7 November 2014(2014-11-07) (aged 83)
Ljubljana , Slovenia Occupation poet, writer, journalist Literary movement
Intimism Notable works Pesmi štirih, Ogenjvoda, Labrador, Ne bog ne žival, Moj prijatelj Piki Jakob, Maček Muri Notable awards
Prešeren Award 1978 for his poetry collection Labrador
[1]
Jenko Award 1993 for his poetry collection Sibirski cirkus
[2]
Kajetan Kovič (21 October 1931 – 7 November 2014) was a
Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist. In 1978, he received the
Prešeren Award , the highest artistic award in Slovenia, for his poetry collection Labrador.
[1]
Life
Kovič was born in
Maribor in 1931 and spent his childhood in the small town of
Poljčane and
Hrastje–Mota near
Radenci in eastern Slovenia. He graduated from high school in Maribor and received a bachelor's degree in
comparative literature from the
University of Ljubljana in 1956.
[3] He died on 7 November 2014.
[4]
Career
Kovič started writing poetry in high school, and he published his first poetry in 1948.
[4] He was best known for his poems and he wrote several bestselling
children's books .
[5] Kovič also wrote
political poetry , such as a poem in honor of
Josip Broz Tito .
[6] He established himself as a translator of German, French,
Czech ,
Hungarian ,
Croatian ,
Serbian , and Russian poetry into Slovene. He also translated the poems that
France Prešeren wrote in German into Slovene.
[7]
Awards and recognition
Kovič won the
Prešeren Foundation Award in 1967 for his poetry collection Ogenjvoda
[8] and later the
Grand Prešeren Award in 1978 for his poetry collection Labrador .
[1] In 1993, he received the
Jenko Award from the Slovene Writers' Association for his poetry collection Sibirski Cirkus ("Siberian Cycle").
[2] Two years later, he was made a member of the
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
[9]
Poetry collections
Utonil bi ("I Would Drown," 1948)
Pesmi štirih ("Poems of the Four," 1953) co-authored with
Janez Menart ,
Ciril Zlobec and
Tone Pavček
Prezgodnji dan ("The Earliest Day," 1956)
Korenine vetra ("The Roots of the Wind," 1961)
Ogenjvoda ("Firewater," 1965)
Vetrnice ("Whirligig," 1970)
Mala čitanka ("Small Reader," 1973)
Pesmi ("Poems," 1973)
Labrador (1976)
Dežele ("Lands," 1988)
Poletje ("Summer," 1990)
Letni časi ("The Seasons," 1992)
Sibirski ciklus in druge pesmi raznih let ("The Siberian Cycle and Other Poems of Various Years," 1992)
Lovec ("Hunter," 1993)
Glas ("Voice," 1998)
Vrt ("Garden," 2001)
Kalejdoskop ("Kaleidoscope," 2001)
Pesmi ("Poems," 2003)
Vse poti so ("All Paths Are," 2009)
Prose
Ne bog ne žival ("Neither God nor Beast," 1965)
Tekma ali kako je arhitekt Nikolaj preživel konec tedna ("The Race, or How the Architect Nicholas Spent His Weekend," 1970)
Iskanje Katarine ("Searching For Catherine," 1987)
Pot v Trento: prizori iz navadnega življenja Franca M. ("Voyage into the Trenta Valley: Scenes from the Ordinary Life of Franc M.," 1994)
Profesor domišljije: ljubljanska zgodba ("The Professor of Imagination: A Tale of Ljubljana," 1996)
Jutranji sprehajalec ("The Morning Perambulator," 2005)
Sled sence zarje ("A Trace of the Shadow of Dawn," 2006)
Mala nebesa ("Small Heavens," 2008)
Children's books
Franca izpod Klanca ("Francine From Under the Steep Hill," 1963)
Zlata ladja ("The Golden Ship," 1969)
Moj prijatelj Piki Jakob ("My Friend Piki Jacob," 1972)
Maček Muri ("Muri the Tomcat," 1975)
Zgodnje zgodbe ("Early Tales," 1978)
Križemkraž ("Crisscross," 1980)
Zmaj Direndaj ("The Dragon Direndaj," 1981)
Pajacek in punčka ("The Puppet and the Little Girl," 1984)
Križemkraž: zgodnje pesmi, zgodnje zgodbe in še malo mačje godbe ("Crisscross: Eearly Poems, Early Tales and a Bit of Cat Music," 1991)
Mačji sejem ("Cats' Fair," 1999)
References
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