Milan Jesih (born April 14, 1950) is a Slovene

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, and

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. He was the president of the

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between 2009 and 2011. Jesih was born in

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in 1950. He studied

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at the

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and was a member of the avant-garde poetry group ''442''. He is known for his translations from English and Russian into Slovene (

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, and

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). He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1986 for his poetry collection ''Usta'' and for his plays, the Jenko Award and the

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for his poetry collection ''Jambi'' in 2001, and the Grand Prešeren Award in 2002 for his poetic opus.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
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Poetry collections

* ''Uran v urinu, gospodar!'' (1972) * ''Legende'' (1974) * ''Kobalt'' (1976) * ''Volfram'' (1980) * ''Usta'' (1985) * ''Soneti'' (1989) * ''Soneti drugi'' (1993) * ''Jambi'' (2000)

References

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