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Kresnik Award
Kresnik is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best novel in Slovene of the previous year. It has been bestowed since 1991 at summer solstice by the national newspaper house Delo. The awards ceremony is normally held on Rožnik Hill above Ljubljana where the winner is invited to light a large bonfire A bonfire is a large and controlled outdoor fire, used either for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration. Etymology The earliest recorded uses of the word date back to the late 15th century, with the Catho .... The winner also receives a financial award. References External links Kresnik Award on the Slovenia Cultural Profiles Project site, a Ministry of Culture of Slovenia and British Council Slovenia joint project Slovenian literary awards Awards established in 1991 1991 establishments in Slovenia {{Slovenia-media-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kresnik or Krsnik may refer to: People * Johann Kresnik (b. 1939), Austrian choreographer * Julius or Ludger Will Kresnik, characters in ''Tales of Xillia 2'' * Dora Krsnik (b. 1992), Croatian handball player Other * Kresnik Ahtreide, a character in ''Wild Arms 4'' * Kresnik Award, a Slovenian literary award * Kresnik (deity), a Slavic deity * Krsnik (vampire hunter) A krsnik (female: krsnicaNada Kerševan, ''Vəkuli riti v garžet: Zgodbe s Kraškega roba do Brkinov, Sežane in Razdrtega'', 2016, p.75/ref>) or kresnik is a type of vampire hunter, a shaman whose spirit wanders from the body in the form of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drago Jančar
Drago Jančar (born 13 April 1948) is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the most well-known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement. Jančar's novels, essays and short stories have been translated into 21 languages and published in Europe, Asia and the United States. The most numerous translations are into German, followed by Czech and Croatian translations. His dramas have also been staged by a number of foreign theatres, while back home they are frequently considered the highlights of the Slovenian theatrical season. He lives and works in Ljubljana. Life He was born in Maribor, an industrial center in what was then the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia. His father, originally from the Prekmurje region, joined Slovene Partisans during World War II. Jančar studied law in his home town. While a student, he became chief editor of the student journal ''Katedra''; he soon cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davorin Lenko
Davorin is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Davorin Dolar (1921–2005), Slovene chemist *Davorin Jenko (1835–1914), Slovene composer *Davorin Kablar (born 1977), Slovene footballer *Davorin Karničar (born 1962), Slovene alpinist and extreme skier *Davorin Popović (1946–2001), Bosnian pop singer *Davorin Trstenjak (1817–1890), Slovene writer, historian and priest See also *Davorin (award), Bosnian music award now known as ''Indexi'' *Davor (name) Davor is an old Slavic given name possibly derived from the prehistoric Slavic god of war (equivalent of Mars) or from an old exclamation expressing joy or sorrow. Feminine variant: Davorka. The name may refer to: * Davor Antunović (born 1979), ... {{given name Slavic masculine given names Slovene masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadej Golob
Tadej Golob (born 1967) is a Slovene mountaineer and writer. Golob was born in Maribor in 1967 and grew up in the small town of Lenart v Slovenskih goricah in northeastern Slovenia. He moved to Ljubljana to study journalism but never completed his studies. He worked as a contributor to various magazines, but is known in Slovenia chiefly as an alpine climber. In 2010 Golob won the Kresnik Award for best novel with his debut novel (Pigs' Legs). It is a witty story of an aspiring comics artist looking for inspiration, trying to make ends meet and coping on the margin with a non-existent career, his family and society. The title refers to the lead character's attempt to master the art of tattooing by practicing on pigs' legs. Published works * ''Z Everesta'', travelogue about skiing down Mount Everest (2000) co-written with Davo Karničar and Urban Golob * , a selection of his contributions from Slovene edition of Playboy magazine, (2005) * , biography of Zoran Predin, (2008) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Vojnović
Goran Vojnović (born 11 June 1980) is a Slovenian writer, poet, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his 2008 novel ''Southern Scum Go Home'' ( sl, Čefurji raus!) which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of Interior. Vojnović was born in Ljubljana to a family of mixed Bosnian and Jewish descent. He studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. He published his first collection of poetry ''Lep je ta svet'' in 1998. His novel ''Čefurji raus!'' started out as an unfinished film script. It describes life of immigrant youth in the Fužine estate in Ljubljana, their everyday problems and cultural differences between locals and immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. For it he won the Prešeren Foundation Award and the Kresnik Award in 2009. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Štefan Kardoš
Štefan Kardoš (born 1966) is a Slovene writer. He lives in Murska Sobota and works as a teacher at the Bilingual Secondary School in Lendava. In 2008 Kardoš won the Kresnik Award for his novel ''Rizling polka'' (Riesling Polka). Novels * '' Sekstant'' (2002), co-written with Robert Titan Felix and Norma Bale * ''Rizling polka'' (2007) * ''Pobočje sončnega griča '' (2010) References External linksKardoš's publisher, Litera publishing house Maribor, official site of ''Rizling polka'' in Mladina
''Mladina'' (English: Youth) is a Slovenian weekly left-wing political and current affairs magazine. Since the 1920s, when it was first published, it has become a voice of protest against those i ...
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Milan Dekleva
Milan Dekleva (born 17 October 1946) is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist. Dekleva was born in Ljubljana in 1946. He graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana and works as a journalist. He is best known for his poetry and has published over twenty peorty collections, a number of novels and collections of short stories. He was the first poet to publish haiku in Slovene (''Mushi mushi'', 1971). Many of his poems deal with the modern human condition in the absence of God. He received a number of awards including the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1989 for his poetry collection ''Zapriseženi prah'', the Grand Prešeren Award in 2006 for his lifetime poetry and writing work and the Kresnik Award for his novel ''Zmagoslavje podgan'' (The Triumph of the Rats), also in 2006. He won the Veronika Award The Veronika Award ( sl, Veronikina nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best Slovene language, Slovene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sodobnost
''Sodobnost'' ( Slovene for ''Modernity'' or ''Contemporary Time'') is a Slovenian literary and cultural magazine, established in 1933. It is considered the oldest of currently existing literary magazines in Slovenia. Although ''Sodobnost'' has traditionally been a magazine focused on cultural and literary issues, it nowadays covers a wide range of current affairs. It is part of the Eurozine editorial project. History and profile ''Sodobnost'' was established in 1933 by a group of left liberal intellectuals around Fran Albrecht, Josip Vidmar and Ferdo Kozak, who had left the national liberal magazine ''Ljubljanski zvon'' in disagreement with its appeasing policies towards the dictatorship of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and the centralist and non-democratic policies of the Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy, Yugoslav National Party. Its first two editors were the literary critic Josip Vidmar and author Ferdo Kozak Ferdo Kozak (28 October 1894 – 8 December 1957) was a Sloven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alojz Rebula
Alojz Rebula (June 21, 1924 – October 23, 2018) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator, and a prominent member of the Slovene minority in Italy. He lived and worked in Villa Opicina in the Province of Trieste, Italy. He was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Life Rebula was born in the ethnically Slovene village of San Pelagio ( sl, Šempolaj) near Duino, in what was then the Kingdom of Italy. Because of the anti-Slavic Italianization policies of the Fascist regime, Rebula could not have an education in his native language. He attended Italian-language schools, where he became acquainted with Italian culture and literature. He went to the gymnasium of Gorizia and later the lyceum in Udine, which he graduated from in 1944. After the end of World War II, he moved to Yugoslavia. He studied classical philology at the University in Ljubljana, from where he graduated in 1949. In 1951, he moved back to Italy because of the pressures of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Revija (publishing Company)
Nova revija ( Slovene for ''New Review'' or ''New Journal'') is a Slovenian publishing house and cultural institute that developed from the literary journal with the same name. The publishing house ''Nova revija'' was founded in 1990. In the 1990s and 2000s, several other magazines were launched within the ''Nova revija'' consortium, including a magazine for current political analysis ''Ampak'' (since 1999), the journal for legal theory ''Dignitas'', the philosophical journal ''Phainomena'' (since 1992), and the journal for religious studies ''Poligrafi''. Since the early 1980s, ''Nova revija'' has edited and published works of those modern Slovene authors who were prevented from publishing their complete oeuvre during the Communist period. Those include Edvard Kocbek, Vitomil Zupan, Dušan Pirjevec, and Gregor Strniša. See also *Sodobnost ''Sodobnost'' ( Slovene for ''Modernity'' or ''Contemporary Time'') is a Slovenian literary and cultural magazine, established in 1933 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Šeligo
Rudi Šeligo (14 May 1935 – 22 January 2004) was a Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and politician. Together with Lojze Kovačič and Drago Jančar, he is considered one of the foremost Slovenian modernist writers of the post-World War II period. Life Šeligo was born in a Slovene family in Sušak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now part of the city of Rijeka, Croatia. In 1939, he moved with his family to the industrial town of Jesenice in north-western Slovenia. After finishing high school, he worked as an industrial worker in the local iron mill for few years. He then moved to the small town of Tolmin, where he finished a teacher's academy. In 1956, he moved to Ljubljana, where he enrolled in the University of Ljubljana, studying philosophy and sociology. In Ljubljana, Šeligo became involved with a group of young and intellectuals known as the Critical generation. He published several short stories in the alternative literary journal Revija 57. He became friends with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Marinčič
Katarina Marinčič (born 25 June 1968) is a Slovene writer and literary historian. She has a PhD in French literature and teaches and is a member of the Senate at the Arts Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. In 2002 Marinčič won the Kresnik Award for her novel ''Prikrita harmonija'' (Hidden Harmony). The novel is a family chronicle set in the period around the First World War. flyer published by the Slovenian Book Agency The Slovenian Book Agency ( sl, Javna agencija za knjigo Republike Slovenije often abbreviated to ''JAK'' or ''JAKRS'') is an autonomous g ...
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