Ivan Minatti
Ivan Minatti | |
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| Born | 22 March 1924 Slovenske Konjice, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now in Slovenia) |
| Died | 9 June 2012 (aged 88) Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | poet, translator |
| Nationality | Slovenian |
| Notable works | You Have to Love Somebody (poem collection), The Pain of the Unexperienced (poem collection), I Listen to the Silence Inside Me (poem collection) |
| Notable awards | Prešeren Fund Award 1964 for the poem collection You Have to Love Somebody Prešeren Award 1985 for the poem collection I Listen to the Silence Inside Me Veronika Award 2009 for his life work |
Ivan Minatti (22 March 1924 – 9 June 2012) was a Slovene poet and translator.[1] He started writing poetry before the World War II, but principally belongs to the first post-war generation of Slovene poets.[2] He is a representative of Slovene intimism.[1] His poems are lyrical and deal with the modern-age resignation and melancholy, influenced by the horors of the war.[1]
Minatti was born in 1924 in Slovenske Konjice in the eastern Slovenia.[1] His family moved first to Slovenj Gradec and then to Ljubljana while he was still a child. He attended the grammar school in the city and then started medical studies, but postponed them to join the Partisans in 1944.[3] After the war, he started Slovene studies at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1952.[1] He worked as an editor at Mladinska Knjiga publishers until his retirement in 1984.[4] He became a regular member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1991.[1]
Minatti won the Prešeren Fund Award in 1964 for his poetry collection You Have to Love Somebody (Template:Lang-sl[5] and the Grand Prešeren Award in 1985 for his poetry collection I Listen to the Silence Inside Me ([Prisluškujem tišini v sebi] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help).[6] Ivan Minatti died in Ljubljana at the age of 88 years. [1]
Poetry collections
- From the Way ([S poti] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1947)
- And the Spring Comes ([Pa bo pomlad prišla] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1955)
- You Have to Love Somebody ([Nekoga moraš imeti rad] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1963)
- The Wind Sings ([Veter poje] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1963)
- The Pain of the Unexperienced ([Bolečina nedoživetega] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1964)
- Poems, ([Pesmi] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1971)
- The Face, ([Obraz] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), 1972)
- When I Will be Quiet and Good ([Ko bom tih in dober] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1973)
- The Poems, ([Pesmi] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1977) - with Janez Menart and Lojze Krakar
- I Listen to the Silence Inside Myself ([Prisluškujem tišini v sebi] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1984)
- Under the Closed Eyelids: Chosen Poems ([Pod zaprtimi vekami, izbrane pesmi] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1999)
- Minatti – Chosen Lyrical Poesy (Template:Minatti – izbrana lirika'', 2004)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ivan Minatti, Poet, Has Died". English Service: News. Slovenian Press Agency. 10 June 2012.
- ^ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovene). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ B. Pynsent, Robert; I. Kanikova, Sonia, eds. (1993). Reader's encyclopedia of Eastern European literature. HarperCollins. p. 267. ISBN 9780062700070.
- ^ "Umrl je pesnik in prevajalec Ivan Minatti". MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. 9 June 2012.
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