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Slovenian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Slovenia or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Vera Albreht (1895–1971), poet, children's writer, translator B *Gabriela Babnik (born 1979), novelist, critic, translator * Mária Bajzek Lukács (born 1960), Hungarian-born Slovene-language writer, educator, editor, translator * Cvetka Bevc (born 1960), poet, prose writer, children's writer, playwright *Berta Bojetu (1946–1997), poet, novelist * Kristina Brenk (1911–2009), children's writer, poet, translator C *Anica Černej (1900–1944), poet, children's writer D * Elvira Dolinar (1870–1961), journalist, novelist, feminist G * Alenka Goljevšček (1933–2017), playwright, young adult writer, essayist * Berta Golob (born 1932), children's writer, poet H *Milka Hartman (1902–1997), poet J * Vida Jeraj (1860–1932), poet. K * Alma Karlin (1889–1950), travel writer, poet, novelist, writing mainly in German *Jana Kolarič (born 1954), poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taja Kramberger
Taja Kramberger (born 11 September 1970) is a Slovenian poet, translator, essayist and historical anthropologist from Slovenia. She lives in France. Biography Early life and education Kramberger was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kramberger spent her childhood (between the ages of four and eleven) at the seaside – in the bilingual old-Venetian town of Koper-Capodistria near Trieste. She finished four years of primary school there ( Pinko Tomažič), and then moved with family to Ljubljana. There she completed primary and secondary school at Gimnazija Bežigrad. Kramberger completed undergraduate studies in history at the University of Ljubljana, where she also studied archaeology, abandoning this latter when she became engaged in the literary field (1995). She enrolled postgraduate history studies in 1997 and was from then on until 2010 (when a university purge of critical intellectuals was executed at the University of Primorska) a steady and active member of the univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lela B
Lela may refer to: People * Lela (footballer) (born 1962), Brazilian football player * Lela Alston (born 1942), American politician * Lela Autio (1927-2016), American modernist painter and sculptor * Lela B. Njatin (born 1963), Slovene writer and visual artist * Lela Bliss (1896-1980), American actress * Lela Brooks (1908-1990), Canadian speed skater * Lela Chichinadze (born 1988), Georgian footballer * Lela Cole Kitson (1891-1970), American freelance writer * Lela E. Buis, American writer, playwright, poet, and artist * Lela E. Rogers (1891-1977), American journalist, film producer, film editor, and screenwriter * Lela Evans, Canadian politician * Lela Javakhishvili (born 1984), Georgian chess player * Lela Karagianni (1898-1944), Greek resistance leader * Lela Keburia (born 1976), Georgian politician and philologist * Lela Lee, American actress and cartoonist * Lela Loren (born 1980), American television and film actress * Lela Mevorah (1898-1972), Serbian librarian and medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marica Nadlišek Bartol
Marica Nadlišek Bartol (February 10, 1867 – January 3, 1940) was a Slovenian writer and editor. From 1897 to 1899, she served as founding editor of the influential women's journal ''Slovenka''. Forced to flee her home city of Trieste in 1919 after the Italian takeover, she settled in Ljubljana and resumed her Slovenian nationalist and feminist writing and activism, which had been cut short by her marriage two decades earlier. Early life and education Marica Nadlišek was born in Trieste, in what was then the Austrian Empire, in 1867. Her father was a middle-class land surveyor who was active in the Slovenian community of Trieste. In 1882, she enrolled in a teacher's college in Gorizia; teaching was one of the few professions available to Slovenian women at the time. While at school in Gorizia, she became interested in Slovenian literature and entered the world of Slovenian intelligentsia. After graduating in 1886, she returned to the Trieste area and became a teacher in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 a number of other stories and children's books, many with themes from the Second World War in Yugoslavia World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was Invasion of Yugoslavia, swiftly conquered by Axis powers, Axis forces and partitioned between Nazi Germany, Germany, Kingdom of Italy, Italy, Kingdom of Hung .... She was married to the poet and satirist Frane Milčinski Ježek. Selected works * ''Pravljice za danes in jutri'' (Stories for today and Tomorrow), 1992 * ''To si ti, Nina'' (That Is You, Nina), 1988 * ''Danes, ko postajam pionir, pionirka'' (Today As I Become a Pioneer), 1988 * ''Matiček in Maja včeraj, danes, jutri in vsak dan'' (Matiček and Maja Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Mihelič
Mira Mihelič, also known as Mira Kramer Puc (14 July 1912 – 4 September 1985) was a Yugoslav writer and translator. Biography Mira Mihelič was born in Split (city), Split on 14 July 1912, then Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia) as Mira Kramer. She went to school in Ljubljana and studied law for a while. She then became a professional writer and translator, one of the most noted Slovene literary figures of the 20th century. She was a longtime member of Slovene and international writers' societies, serving as president of the Slovene Writers' Association and Slovene PEN from 1973 also vice-president of International PEN. It was largely due to her efforts that international meetings organised by Slovene PEN began, an annual event that continues to date. She died in Ljubljana in 1985. Work Mihelič's first novels ''Obraz v zrcalu'' (Face in the Mirror) (1941) and ''Tiha Voda'' (Quiet Waters) (1942) are descriptions of life in the comfortable world and aristocratic atmosphere of fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neža Maurer
Neža Maurer Škofič (born 22 December 1930) is a Slovene poet and writer. She writes for children, young adults and adults and has also worked as a translator, journalist, editor and teacher. Neža Maurer was born in the village of Podvin near Polzela in 1930. She trained as a teacher in Ljubljana and taught in schools in Črni vrh nad Idrijo and Ilirska Bistrica and at the same time got a degree in Slavistics from the University of Ljubljana. She worked as a journalist and programme coordinator for youth programmes at TV Ljubljana and as a contributor and editor at numerous magazines and journals. She lives in Preddvor Preddvor (; german: Höflein''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 54.) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Preddvo ... and as a retired artist continues to be a prolific writer and poet. In 2010 she received the Poetry Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Marinčič
Katarina Marinčič (born 25 June 1968) is a Slovene writer and literary historian. She has a PhD in French literature and teaches and is a member of the Senate at the Arts Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. In 2002 Marinčič won the Kresnik Award for her novel ''Prikrita harmonija'' (Hidden Harmony). The novel is a family chronicle set in the period around the First World War. flyer published by the Slovenian Book Agency The Slovenian Book Agency ( sl, Javna agencija za knjigo Republike Slovenije often abbreviated to ''JAK'' or ''JAKRS'') is an autonomous g ...
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Svetlana Makarovič
Svetlana Makarovič (born 1 January 1939) is a Slovenian writer of prose, poetry, children's books, and picture books, and is also an actress, illustrator and chanteuse. She has been called "The First Lady of Slovenian poetry." She is also noted for borrowing from Slovenian folklore to tell stories of rebellious and independent women. She is well-known adult and youth author. Her works for youth have become a part of modern classic and youth canon, which both hold a special place in history of the Slovenian youth literature. She won the Levstik Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2011. Biography Makarovič finished secondary school for pre-school teachers in Ljubljana. In the early 1960s she began with study of various humanistic sciences (psychology, pedagogics, ethnology and foreign languages), she played piano in various cafes and for a short period she was a secretary and teacher for children with special needs. In 1968, she finished her study at Academy for Theatre, Radio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cvetka Lipuš
Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966) is an Austrian poet writing in Slovenian language, Slovenian. She was born in Bad Eisenkappel in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia and is the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenes, Carinthian Slovenian author Florjan Lipuš. She attended the high school for Slovenes in Klagenfurt. She studied comparative literature and Slavic studies at the University of Vienna and University of Klagenfurt. She lived in the United States from the early 1990s to 2009 and studied library and information sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Salzburg, Austria, in 2009. She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first collection, ''V lunini senci'' (In the Shadow of the Moon) in 1985. Four years later ''Pragovi dneva'' (Thresholds of the Day) was published, which was followed by ''Doba temnjenja'' (Times of Darkness) in 1993. Her fourth volume of poems, ''Geografija bližine'' (Geography of Closeness), appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Lemaić
Vesna Lemaić (born 1981) is a Slovene writer from 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 .... Biography Vesna Lemaić is a writer from Slovenia. In 2008, she entered the literary scene with a highly acclaimed short stories collection Popular stories (''Popularne zgodbe''). The book won three awards for a short story collection in Slovene. In 2010, her first novel ''The Dumping ground'' (''Odlagališče'') was published. Regarding short stories, story "The pool" (''Bazen'') was placed into short stories collection ''Best European fiction 2014''. Her stories were published in literary periodicals ''Literatura'', ''Sodobnost'', ''Dialogi'', etc. Her radio drama Underpassenger (''Podpotnik'') was produced by Slovene national radio Radio Slovenija. Lemaić's liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zofka Kveder
Zofka Kveder (22 April 1878 – 21 November 1926) was a writer, playwright, translator and journalist who wrote in Slovene and later in life also in Croatian. She is considered one of the first Slovene women writers and feminists. Kveder was born in Ljubljana and spent most of her childhood in rural Lower Carniola before she was sent to a convent school in Ljubljana. In 1897 she found work in Ljubljana. In 1899 she first moved to Trieste and then to Bern where she enrolled in the university, but was unable to support herself financially and headed for Munich and then Prague. There she met her future husband Vladimir Jelovšek, a Croatian medical student with whom she moved to Zagreb in 1906. She later remarried to the Croatian politician Juraj Demetrović. In Prague she published her first book of short stories ''Misterij žene'' (The Mystery of a Woman). An anthology of her work was published by the ''Založba'' ''Belo-modra knjižnica'', which was run by noted feminist and pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
