Ivo Svetina (born 9 September 1948) is a Slovene

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and

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. He has won numerous awards for his plays and poetry collections. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the ''National Theatre Museum of Slovenia''. In 2014 he was elected President of the

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. Svetina was born in

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in 1948. He studied

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at the

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and worked in numerous experimental theatre companies in the late 1960s and 1970s. He worked at

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and the

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. He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1988 for his poetry collection ''Peti rokopisi'' and in 2010 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection ''Sfingin hlev''.

Selected works

Poetry collections

* ''Plovi na jagodi pupa magnolija do zlatih vladnih palač'' (1971) * ''Heliks in Tibija'' (1973) * ''Botticelli'' (1975) * ''Vaša partijska ljubezen, Očetje! Herojska smrt življenje'' (1976) * ''Joni'' (1976) * ''Dissertationes'' (1977) * ''Bulbul'' (1982) * ''Marija in živali'' (1986) * ''Péti rokopisi'' (1987) * ''Knjiga očetove smrti: videnja, izreki 1989'' (1990) * ''Almagest'' (1991) * ''Disciplina bolečine: stance praznine'' (1993) * ''Glasovi snega'' (1993) * ''Disciplina bolečine'' (1993) * ''Zakoni vode in lesa: 1993-1995'' (1997) * ''Svitanice'' (1998) * ''Svit'' (2000) * ''Stihi, videnja, izreki'' (2001) * ''Oblak in gora'' (2003) * ''Pesmi nevednosti'' (2004) * ''Lesbos'' (2005) * ''Vrt pozabe'' (2005) * ''Na obali oceana tovarna poezije'' (2008) * ''Pes in Perzijci'' (2008) * ''Stimmen slowenischer Lyrik 2'' (2008) * ''Sfingin hlev'' (2010)

Plays

* ''Lepotica in zver ali Kaj se je zgodilo z Danico D.?'' (1985) * ''Biljard na Capriju/Šeherezada'' (1989) * ''Zgodba iz južnega gozda ali Kdo je ubil sonce'' (1989) * ''Tibetanska knjiga mrtvih'' (1992) * ''Kamen in zrno'' (1993) * ''Vrtovi in golobica'' (1994) * ''Zarika in sončnica'' (1995) * ''Tako je umrl Zaratuštra'' (1996) * ''Babilon'' (1996) * ''Ojdip v Korintu'' (1999)

Children's Literature

* ''Aves, ptičji kralj'' (1990) * ''Pravljica o jari kači'' (1990) * ''Deček in muha'' (1990) * ''Kozel vrtnar'' (1993) * ''Belin'' (1997)

References

Slovenian poets Slovenian male poets Slovenian dramatists and playwrights Living people 1948 births Veronika Award laureates University of Ljubljana alumni Presidents of the Slovene Writers' Association Writers from Ljubljana {{slovenia-writer-stub