Ciril Bergles (18 July 1934 – 25 August 2013) was a
Slovene poet,
essayist and
translator. He published numerous collections of poetry and was also known for his translations of poetry, mostly by
Spanish and
South American authors, into Slovene.
Bergles was born in
Repče, just outside
Ljubljana in 1934. He studied
Slovene and
English at the
University of Ljubljana and worked as a secondary school teacher after graduation. He started publishing his poetry in 1984 with his collection ''Na poti v tišino'' (On the Path to Silence). In 2004 he won the
Jenko Award
The Jenko Award ( sl, Jenkova nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best poetry collection in Slovene published in the previous two years. It has been bestowed since 1986 by the Slovene Writers' Association. It is name ...
for his poetry collection ''Moj dnevnik priča'' (My Diary Speaks). He translated poetry by
Jorge Guillén,
Alejandra Pizarnik
Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been ...
,
Jaime Gil de Biedma
Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba (13 November 1929 – 8 January 1990) was a Spanish post-Civil War poet.
He was born in Nava de la Asunción on 13 November 1929. He stopped writing poetry some ten years before his death. He insisted that the charact ...
,
Adrienne Rich,
Fernando Pessoa,
Luis Cernuda,
Justo Jorge Padrón
Justo Jorge Padrón (1 October 1943 – 11 April 2021) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and translator. His work has been described as confirming " e strength of modern Canarian poetry".
Biography
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1943 ...
,
Miguel de Unamuno,
Constantine Cavafy
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης ; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), was a Gre ...
,
Rubén Darío,
Ernesto Cardenal,
Rafael Alberti,
Federico García Lorca and
César Vallejo into Slovene. He also published an anthology of
Basque poets in Slovene entitled ''Branil bom očetovo hišo'' (I Will Defend My Father's House).
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Poetry collections
* ''Tutankamon'' (2008)
* ''Zaupna sporočila'' (2008)
* ''Tvoja roka na mojem čelu'' (2006)
* ''Moj dnevnik priča'' (2004)
* ''V Polifemovem očesu'' (2004)
* ''Z besedo in ognjem'' (1999)
* ''Čas darovanja'' (1999)
* ''Razsežnost prosojnosti'' (1996)
* ''Noč, nato še dan'' (1996)
* ''Via Dolorosa'' (1996)
* ''Ifrikija'' (1993)
* ''Ta dom je večen'' (1991)
* ''Pesnik v Benetkah'' (1990)
* ''Ellis Island'' (1988)
* ''Vaje za svetlobo'' (1985)
* ''Na poti v tišino'' (1984)
References
Slovenian male poets
Slovenian translators
2013 deaths
1934 births
University of Ljubljana alumni
20th-century Slovenian poets
20th-century translators
People from the City Municipality of Ljubljana
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