Ivan Minatti
Ivan Minatti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 March 1924 Slovenske Konjice, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now in Slovenia) |
| Occupation | poet, translator |
| Notable works | Nekoga moraš imeti rad, Bolečina nedoživetega, Prisluškujem tišini v sebi |
| Notable awards | Prešeren Foundation Award 1964 for his poetry collection Nekoga moraš imeti rad Prešeren Award 1985 for his poetry collection Prisluškujem tišini v sebi Poetry Gold Medal 2009 for his life work |
Ivan Minatti (22 March 1924–9 June 2012) was a Slovene poet and translator. He statred writing poetry before the Second World War, but principally belongs to the first post-war generation of Slovene poets.[1]
Minatti was born in 1924 in Slovenske Konjice in the Lower Styria region of what is now Slovenia. His family moved first to Slovenj Gradec and the to Ljubljana whilst he was still a child. He briefly joined the Partisans in 1944. After the war he studied Slavic studies at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1952. He worked as an editor at Mladinska Knjiga publishers until his retirement in 1984. He was made a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1991. [2]
Minatti won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1964 for his poetry collection Nekoga moraš imeti rad (You Have to Love Somebody)[3] and the Grand Prešeren Award in 1985 for his poetry collection Prisluškujem tišini v sebi (I Listen In to the Silence Inside Me)[4]
Poetry collections
- S poti, 1947
- Pa bo pomlad prišla, 1955
- Nekoga moraš imeti rad, 1963
- Veter poje, 1963
- Bolečina nedoživetega, 1964
- Pesmi, 1971
- Obraz, 1972
- Ko bom tih in dober, 1973
- Pesmi, 1977 - with Janez Menart and Lojze Krakar
- Prisluškujem tišini v sebi, 1984
- Pod zaprtimi vekami, izbrane pesmi, 1999
- Minatti – izbrana lirika, 2004
References
- ^ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovene). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Ivan Minatti on the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts site, (in Slovene)
- ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipents
- ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipents
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