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Frane Milčinski (pen name Ježek; 14 December 1914 – 27 February 1988) was a Slovene poet,
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,
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and comedian, actor,
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, and director. He is considered one of Slovenia's foremost 20th-century satirists and entertainers.


Life

Milčinski was born in
Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
in 1914 as the third child of the writer and judge
Fran Milčinski Fran Milčinski (3 December 1867 – 24 October 1932), also known by the pen name Fridolin Žolna, was a Slovene lawyer, writer and playwright. Life Fran Milčinski was born in Lož, a town in Inner Carniola, which was then part of Austria-H ...
. During World War II he was interned at the
Gonars concentration camp The Gonars concentration camp was one of the several Italian concentration camps and it was established on February 23, 1942, near Gonars, Italy. Many internees were transferred to this camp from the other Italian concentration camp, Rab concen ...
. He was married to the writer and journalist
Jana Milčinski Jana Milčinski (born Jana Podkrajšek; 5 December 1920 – 13 April 2007) was a Slovene writer, journalist and translator. She won the Levstik Award in 1986 for her popular science book ''Lukec dobi sestrico'' (Lukec Gets a Sister). She wrote ...
.


Work

He worked in the theatre and radio from an early age.


Awards

Throughout his career, Milčinski won numerous awards. The 1951 film '' Kekec'', for which he co-wrote the screenplay and theme song "Dobra volja je najbolja," won the first international award for a Slovene feature film when it won a
Golden Lion The Golden Lion ( it, Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguishe ...
in the children's film category at the
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in 1952. Milčinski also won the
Levstik Award The Levstik Award ( sl, Levstikova nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded for achievements in children's literature. It has been bestowed since 1949 by the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House, making it the first literary award established ...
in 1959 for his story '' Zvezdica Zaspanka'' (The Sleepy Little Star). In 1975 he won the Grand Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement in radio, television, film, and literature.


Legacy

The
Ježek Award Ježek may refer to: People: *Frane Milčinski, a Slovene writer that used the pen name Ježek *Ježek (surname), various people with the surname Ježek Other: * 27132 Ježek, a main belt asteroid *Czech hedgehog The Czech hedgehog ( cs, rozsoc ...
for creative achievement in radio and television is named after him; it has been bestowed annually since 1989 by Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization,
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Selected prose

* ''13 in ena: humoreske Franeta Milčinskega – Ježka'' (13 and One: Humorous Stories by Frane Milčinski, a.k.a. Ježek, 1951) * ''Zvezdica Zaspanka'' (The Sleepy Little Star, 1959) * ''Legenda o birokratu'' (A Legend about a Bureaucrat, 1961) * ''Desetnica in druge pravljice'' (The Tenth Daughter and Other Tales, 1964) * ''Govoreči bankovec: antologija slovenske humoristične proze'' (The Talking Banknote: An Anthology of Slovene Humorous Prose, 1976) * ''Preprosta ljubezen'' (Simple Love, 1987) * ''Ta svet je pesmi vreden'' (This World Is Worthy of a Song, 1988) * ''Humoreske'' (Humorous Stories, 1998) * ''13 + 8 humoresk'' (13 + 8 Humorous Stories, 2003)


Screenplays

* '' Kekec'' (1951) * ''
Svet na Kajžarju ''Life in Kajzar'' ( sl, Svet na kajžarju) is a 1952 Slovene film directed by France Štiglic. It is based on a novel by Ivan Potrč and is set in Haloze in the Slovene countryside in the years immediately after the Second World War ...
'' (1952) * ''
Vesna Vesna (Cyrillic: Весна) was a mythological female character associated with youth and springtime in early Slavic mythology, particularly within Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia and Slovenia. Along with her male companion Vesnik, she was asso ...
'' (1953) * ''
The Beginning Was Sin ''The Beginning Was Sin'' (German: ''Am Anfang war es Sünde'') is a 1954 West-German-Yugoslavian drama film directed by František Čáp and starring Ruth Niehaus, Viktor Staal and Hansi Knoteck. The film's sets were designed by the art dire ...
'' (1954) * ''
Ne čakaj na maj ''Ne čakaj na maj'' (lit. ''Do Not Wait for May'', with the English title ''Don't Whisper'') is a 1957 Slovene romantic comedy directed by František Čap. It is a sequel to the 1953 film ''Vesna Vesna (Cyrillic: Весна) was a mythologic ...
'' (1957) * ''Dobri stari pianino'' (1959) * ''Zvezdica Zaspanka'' (1965)


References

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