Dušan Jelinčič (born 1953) is a writer and a journalist from the community of

Slovene minority in Italy Slovene minority in Italy ( it, Minoranza slovena in Italia, sl, Slovenska manjšina v Italiji), also known as Slovenes in Italy ( it, Sloveni in Italia, sl, Slovenci v Italiji) is the name given to Italian citizens who belong to the autochthon ...

from

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...

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.Dušan Jelinčič
Slomedia.it, 28 February 2013 He is also an

Alpine style Alpine style is mountaineering in a self-sufficient manner, thereby carrying all of one's food, shelter and equipment as one climbs, as opposed to expedition style (or siege style) mountaineering which involves setting up a fixed line of stocked ...

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, was among the co-founders of the militant anti-fascist organization

TIGR TIGR, an abbreviation for ''Trst'', ''Istra'', ''Gorica'', and ''Reka'', full name Revolutionary Organization of the Julian March T.I.G.R. ( sl, Revolucionarna organizacija Julijske krajine T.I.G.R.), was a militant anti-fascist and insurgent or ...

, and a close personal friend of prominent authors such as

Vladimir Bartol Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel '' Alamut'', the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated int ...

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

University of Trieste The University of Trieste ( it, Università degli Studi di Trieste, or UniTS) is a public research university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. The university consists of 10 departments, boasts a wide and almos ...

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#Istria, Julian March and Dalmatia, Italianization policy under the Fascist regime, is a Slovenes, Slovene–Italy, Italian historian and a promi ...

Work

Journalism, literature, and alpinism

He has worked in the

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section of the regional

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service for

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. Dušan Jelinčič has also written numerous essays, published in mostly Slovene literary journals, such as ''

Sodobnost ''Sodobnost'' ( Slovene for ''Modernity'' or ''Contemporary Time'') is a Slovenian literary and cultural magazine, established in 1933. It is considered the oldest of currently existing literary magazines in Slovenia. Although ''Sodobnost'' has tr ...

'' and '' Nova revija''. In 2001, he wrote a play about a planned attack on Benito Mussolini by

members, ''Upor obsojenih oz Kobarid 38' – Kronika atentata'', that was put on stage a decade later by Slovene theatre in Trieste. In his book 'Starry Nights' (Slovene: ''Zvezdnate noči''), he wrote about his experiences in the 1986

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, an ...

n expedition to the Karakoram mountain range, that conquered the 8047 m high

Broad Peak Broad Peak ( ur, ) is a mountain in the Karakoram on the border of Pakistan and China, the twelfth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It was first ascended in June 1957 by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, ...

. It was published as serial in

Primorski dnevnik ''Primorski dnevnik'' ( en, The Littoral Daily), mostly known as ''Primorski'', is a Slovene language daily newspaper published in Trieste, Italy. It is the only Slovene daily in any country other than Slovenia, and one of the three historical dai ...

, 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 ''Ex aequo et bono'' (Latin for "according to the right and good" or "from equity and conscience") is a Latin phrase that is used as a legal term of art. In the context of arbitration, it refers to the power of arbitrators to dispense with conside ...

with

Predrag Matvejević Predrag Matvejević (7 October 1932 – 2 February 2017) was a Bosnian and Croatian writer and scholar. A literature scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, he is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book ''Mediterranean: A ...

. Jelinčič's writings are part of the tradition of Slovene mountaineer

travelogue Travelogue may refer to: Genres * Travel literature, a record of the experiences of an author travelling * Travel documentary A travel documentary is a documentary film, television program, or online series that describes travel in general or ...

s, which has been an important current within

Slovene literature Slovene literature is the literature written in Slovene. It spans across all literary genres with historically the Slovene historical fiction as the most widespread Slovene fiction genre. The Romantic 19th-century epic poetry written by the ...

since the fin-de-siecle period. One of the most important centres of this literary production has been

and the nearby areas of the Slovenian Littoral, with authors as Henrik Tuma,

Julius Kugy Julius Kugy (19 July 1858 – 5 February 1944) was a mountaineer, writer, botanist, humanist, lawyer and officer of Slovenian descent. He wrote mostly in German. He is renowned for his travelogues from opening up the Julian Alps, in which he refle ...

, Klement Jug, Tone Svetina, Igor Škamperle, 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 ''Delo'' (russian: Дело) is a business oriented online media in Ukraine, belonging to ekonomika+ media holding. ''Delo'' was the first daily in Ukraine, publishing its real print circulation (13.000 - 15.000) and trying to introduce Western e ...

, 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