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Veronika Award
The Veronika Award ( sl, Veronikina nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best Slovene language, Slovene poetry collection of the year. It has been bestowed since 1997 by the Celje, Municipality of Celje at the Veronika Festival that takes place at Celje Castle. The festival and the award are named after Veronika of Desenice, wife of Frederick II, Count of Celje, accused of witchcraft, Incarceration, incarcerated in Ojstrica Castle and murdered in around 1425. The winner receives a financial award. Since 2005 a separate ''Poetry Gold Medal'' is bestowed on a poet for their life achievement that has contributed to the richness of Slovene poetry, language and culture. Veronika Award laureates Poetry Gold Medal recipients * 2005 - Ciril Zlobec * 2006 - Tone Pavček * 2007 - Kajetan Kovič * 2008 - Miroslav Košuta * 2009 - Ivan Minatti * 2010 - Neža Maurer * 2011 - Veno Taufer * 2012 - Svetlana Makarovič * 2013 - Niko Grafenauer * 2014 - Tone Kuntn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Of Desenice
Veronika of Desenice (died 17 October 1425) ( hr, Veronika Desinićka; sl, Veronika Deseniška, ''Veronika z Desenic'') was the second wife of Frederick II, Count of Celje. Early life Little is known of her early life. It is believed the name ''Deseniška'' derives from the village of Desinić in Croatia, where Frederick also had extensive estates, and it appears in the forms ''Dessnitz'', ''Dessenitz'', ''Desnicze'', ''Teschnitz'', ''Teschenitz'', and ''Dessewitz'' in various historical sources. Marriage and persecution Veronika was of lesser status, and Frederick's father Hermann II, Count of Celje, Hermann II was greatly opposed to the marriage. The chronicles of the Counts of Celje suggest he had his son arrested and, while holding him prisoner, initiated a trial against Veronika accusing her of witchcraft. She was acquitted by the court. Murder Despite the court's ruling, she was incarcerated in Ojstrica Castle near Tabor, Slovenia, Tabor and murdered (supposedly on the orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jože Snoj
Jože Snoj (17 March 1934 – 7 October 2021) was a Slovenian poet, novelist, journalist and essayist. He was awarded the 2012 Prešeren Award for his lifetime work and rich literary opus. He was born in Maribor, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, into a wealthy Slovene family. His uncle, Franc Snoj, was a prominent member of the Slovene People's Party and a minister in the Royal Yugoslav Government. In April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia he escaped with his family from the Nazis to the Italian-occupied Lower Carniola. From there, the family had to flee again to Ljubljana in order to escape persecution by the Communist-led partisan movement. In 1947, his uncle Franc Snoj was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in a staged trial together with other liberal and social democrats who tried to organize a legal opposition to Josip Broz Tito's Communist regime (the so-called Nagode's trial). These experiences deeply influenced Jože Snoj's later literary opus. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleš Šteger
Aleš Šteger (born 31 May 1973) is a Slovene poet, writer, editor and literary critic. Aleš belongs to a generation of writers that started to publish right after the fall of Yugoslavia. His first poetry collection Šahovnice ur (1995) was sold out in three weeks after publication and indicated a new generation of Slovenian artists and writers. Career Štegers books have been translated into 16 languages and his poems appeared in internationally renowned magazines and newspapers as The New Yorker, Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, TLS and many others. Among other prizes and honours his English translation of Knjiga reči (The Book of Things, BOA Editions, 2010) won two mayor U.S. translation awards (BTBA award and AATSEL). Aleš received the title Chevalier dans le ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French State. He is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Besides writing and translating from German and Spanish Aleš is also the programme director of Beletrina a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Osti
Josip Osti (19 March 1945 – 26 June 2021) was a Bosnian and Slovenian poet, prose writer and essayist, literary critic, anthologist and translator. Biography Osti was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo. He was the editor of the culture part of the student magazine ''Naši dani'', editor at the publishing house ''Veselin Masleša'', Secretary of the Literature Society of the City of Sarajevo and Director of the international literary festival Sarajevo Days of Poetry, Secretary of the Writers’ Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of the Association of Literary Translators of Bosnia and Herzegovina and proof-reader/corrector of the publishing house ''Svijetlost''. Since 1990, Osti has been living in Slovenia, first in Ljubljana and then in the village of Tomaj in the Karst region, where he worked as a freelance writer. Osti published some twenty-five books of poetry (last ten were writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjan Strojan
Marjan Strojan (born 16 August 1949) is a Slovene poet, journalist and translator. He studied Comparative literature and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a journalist at the Slovene section of the BBC World Service and as a film critic and literary editor at Radio Slovenija. He has written a number of volumes of poetry and translated Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Milton's Paradise Lost and Sonnets as well as poems by William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Sydney Lea and others into Slovene. He has also edited and in part translated the first comprehensive anthology of English poetry in Slovene. Strojan has written a number of essays, papers and studies on English poetry and contributed to the South Slavic Miltoniana (v. Milton in Translation, OUP, 2016). From 2009 to 2016 he was the president of the Slovenian section of PEN International. In 2000 he won the Veronika Award The Veronika Award ( sl, Veronikina nagrada) is a litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciril Zlobec
Ciril Zlobec (4 July 1925 – 24 August 2018) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician. He is best remembered for his poems, publishing several volumes of poetry in his lifetime. In 1990 he became a member of the Presidency of Slovenia at a critical time for Slovene independence. Life and career Zlobec was born in 1925 in the village of Ponikve on the Karst Plateau in what was then the Julian March region of the Kingdom of Italy. He attended school in Gorizia and Koper. He was expelled from school in 1941 for writing poetry in Slovene, the use of which was strictly forbidden under the policies of Fascist Italianization. During the Second World War he was an activist for the Slovene Liberation Front and briefly joined the Partisans. After the war he completed his studies and graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1953. He worked as a journalist and translator, publishing numerous collections of poetry as well as two novels. In 1989 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Jesih
Milan Jesih (born April 14, 1950) is a Slovene poet, playwright, and translator. He was the president of the Slovene Writers' Association between 2009 and 2011. Jesih was born in Ljubljana in 1950. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and was a member of the avant-garde poetry group ''442''. He is known for his translations from English and Russian into Slovene (Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Bulgakov). He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1986 for his poetry collection ''Usta'' and for his plays, the Jenko Award and the Veronika Award The Veronika Award ( sl, Veronikina nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best Slovene language, Slovene poetry collection of the year. It has been bestowed since 1997 by the Celje, Municipality of Celje at the Veronika ... for his poetry collection ''Jambi'' in 2001, and the Grand Prešeren Award in 2002 for his poetic opus. Poetry collections * ''Uran v urinu, gospodar!'' (1972) * ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miklavž Komelj
Miklavž Komelj (born 10 July 1973) is a Slovene poet and art historian. Komelj was born in Kranj in 1973. He studied History of Art at the University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students. History Beginnings Although certain ... and started publishing poetry in 1991. In 2006 he won the Jenko Award for his poetry collection ''Hipodrom'' and in 2010 the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection ''Nenaslovljiva imena''. In 2011 he received the Rožanc Award for ''Nujnost poezije''. Poetry collections * ''Luč delfina'' (1991) * ''Jantar časa'' (1995) * ''Rosa'' (2002) * ''Hipodrom'' (2006) * ''Nenaslovljiva imena'' (2008) Modra obleka (2011) Roke v dežju (2011) Noč je abstraktnejša kot N (2014) * ''* ‘‘Minima impossibilia‘‘ (2016) Liebestod (2017) 11 (2018) Stigmatiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Vouk
Erika Vouk (born 1941) is a Slovene poet and translator. She won both the Jenko Award in 2002 and the Veronika Award The Veronika Award ( sl, Veronikina nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best Slovene language, Slovene poetry collection of the year. It has been bestowed since 1997 by the Celje, Municipality of Celje at the Veronika ... in 2004 for her poetry collection ''Opis slike''. Poetry collections * ''Bela Evridika'' (1984) * ''Anima'' (1990) * ''Belo drevo'' (2000) * ''Opis slike'' (2002) * ''Album'' (2003) * ''Valovanje'' (2003) * ''Z zamahom ptice neka roka slika'' (2007) * ''Rubin'' (2008) References Slovenian poets Slovenian translators Slovenian women poets Living people 1941 births People from Nova Gorica Veronika Award laureates {{slovenia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Svetina
Ivo Svetina (born 9 September 1948) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He has won numerous awards for his plays and poetry collections. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the ''National Theatre Museum of Slovenia''. In 2014 he was elected President of the Slovene Writers' Association. Svetina was born in Ljubljana in 1948. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and worked in numerous experimental theatre companies in the late 1960s and 1970s. He worked at RTV Slovenia and the Mladinsko Theatre The Slovenian Youth Theatre or Mladinsko Theatre ( sl, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče) was founded in Ljubljana in 1955 as the first professional theater for children and youth in Slovenia. It is situated in the Baraga Seminary, which was built .... He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1988 for his poetry collection ''Peti rokopisi'' and in 2010 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection ''Sfingin hlev''. Selected works Poetry collections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ervin Fritz
Ervin Fritz (born 27 June 1940) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He also writes poetry for children, radio plays, songs and librettos. He started publishing poetry in the mid-1960s. Fritz was born in Prebold in 1940. He studied Dramaturgy at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and worked as dramatourge at TV Ljubljana and Radio Slovenia. In 1979 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection ''Okruški sveta'' and in 2006 he received the Veronika Award for the poetry collection ''Ogrlica iz rad''. Selected works Poetry collections * ''Hvalnica življenja'', 1967 * ''Dan današnji'', 1972 * ''Okruški sveta'', 1978 * ''Pesmi'', 1980 * ''Minevanje'', 1982 * ''Dejansko stanje: Pesmi in songi'', 1985 * ''Slehernik'', 1987 * ''Črna skrinjica'', 1991 * ''Pravzaprav pesmi'', 1995 * ''Favn:Pesmičice kosmatičice'', 1998 * ''Tja čez:Soneti'', 2002 * ''Pesmi: Zgodnja, zrela in pozna trgatev: jagodni izbor'', 2002 * ''Ogrli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |