Dušan Jelinčič (born 1953) is a writer and a journalist from the community of Slovene minority in Italy from Trieste, Italy.Dušan Jelinčič
Slomedia.it, 28 February 2013 He is also an Alpine style mountaineer and the first mountaineer from Trieste who ever conquered an over-8000 m high Himalayan peak.Kam gre veter, ko ne piha
''Gore-ljudje.net'', 11 June 2008

Life

He was born in an influential Slovene intellectual family in Trieste; his father,

Zorko Jelinčič Zorko Jelinčič, (5 March 1900 - 13 July 1965) was a Slovenian national activist and cultural worker. Life and work He was born into a teacher's family in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia. He attended and finished primary school in his hometown, de ...

, was among the co-founders of the

militant anti-fascist The English word ''militant'' is both an adjective and a noun, and it is generally used to mean vigorously active, combative and/or aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in "militant reformers". It comes from the 15th century Latin " ...

organization TIGR, and a close personal friend of prominent authors such as Vladimir Bartol and

Klement Jug Klement Jug (19 November 1898 – 11 August 1924) was a Slovene philosopher, essayist and mountaineer who died while climbing Mount Triglav. Although he did not publish many works during his lifetime, he became one of the most influential thinke ...

. In his college years, he visited most of the world, traveling as backpacker and also lived for a year in a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

in Israel. At the University of Trieste he graduated from history under the mentorship of

Jože Pirjevec Jože Pirjevec (born 1 June 1940), registered at birth Giuseppe Pierazzi because of the Italianization policy under the Fascist regime, is a Slovene–Italian historian and a prominent diplomatic historian of the west Balkans region, as well as a ...

Work

Journalism, literature, and alpinism

He has worked in the Slovene language section of the regional RAI service for Friuli Venezia Giulia. Dušan Jelinčič has also written numerous essays, published in mostly Slovene literary journals, such as '' Sodobnost'' and '' Nova revija''. In 2001, he wrote a play about a planned attack on

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...

by TIGR members, ''Upor obsojenih oz Kobarid 38' – Kronika atentata'', that was put on stage a decade later by

Slovene theatre in Trieste The Slovene Civic Theatre in Trieste ( Slovene: ''Slovensko stalno gledališče''; Italian: ''Teatro Stabile Sloveno'') is the professional theatre of the Slovene minority in Trieste. The building was designed in the 1960s by Edo Mihevc, a Slovene ...

. In his book 'Starry Nights' (Slovene: ''Zvezdnate noči''), he wrote about his experiences in the 1986 Slovenian expedition to the

Karakoram The Karakoram is a mountain range in Kashmir region spanning the borders of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Most of the Karakoram mountain range falls under the ...

mountain range, that conquered the 8047 m high Broad Peak. It was published as serial in Primorski dnevnik, and then it was translated as ''Le notti stellate'' into Italian, it became a best seller in Italy and won four literary prizes (including the international

Acerbi Prize Acèrbi or Acerbi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Angelo Acerbi (born 1925), Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zella and Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand, the Netherlands, Colombia, Hungary, and Moldova *Frances ...

). Among Jelinčič's other works, the most famous is 'Night in the Docks' (''Tema v pomolu''), the Italian translation of which (''Scacco nel buio'') won the prize ''Scritture di Frontiera'' in 2006, ex aequo with Predrag Matvejević. Jelinčič's writings are part of the tradition of Slovene mountaineer travelogues, which has been an important current within Slovene literature since the fin-de-siecle period. One of the most important centres of this literary production has been Trieste and the nearby areas of the

Slovenian Littoral The Slovene Littoral ( sl, Primorska, ; it, Litorale; german: Küstenland) is one of the five traditional regions of Slovenia. Its name recalls the former Austrian Littoral (''Avstrijsko Primorje''), the Habsburg possessions on the upper Ad ...

, with authors as

Henrik Tuma Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia. In Poland, the name is spelt Henryk but pronounced similarly. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Heiki (Estonian), Heikk ...

, Julius Kugy,

, Tone Svetina,

Igor Škamperle Igor Škamperle (born 21 November 1962) is a Slovenian sociologist, cultural theorist, novelist, essayist, mountaineer and translator. He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Trieste, Italy. He studied comparative literature and cultural s ...

, and Zorko Jelinčič, Dušan's father. In 2003, he conquered the 8035 m high Gasherbrum 2.Zvečer ne greš plesat, uležeš se na led
Delo, 7 April 2013

External links

Dušan Jelinčič
biographic entry at Slovene Writers' Society

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jelincic, Dusan 1953 births Living people Italian Slovenes Writers from Trieste Slovenian essayists Slovenian mountain climbers Sportspeople from Trieste University of Trieste alumni