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

Slovene minority in Italy Slovene minority in Italy (, ), also known as Slovenes in Italy (, ) is the name given to Italy, Italian citizens who belong to the autochthonous Slovenes, Slovene ethnic and linguistic minority living in the Italian autonomous region of Friuli-V ...

from

Trieste Trieste ( , ; ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the Province of Trieste, ...

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

Alpine style Alpine climbing () is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large climbing route, routes (e.g. multi-pitch climbing, ...

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 Zorko Jelinčič (5 March 1900 - 13 July 1965) was a Slovenian national activist and cultural worker. Life and work He was born into a teacher's family in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia. He attended and finished primary school in his hometown, de ...

, was among the co-founders of the

militant anti-fascist Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were op ...

organization

TIGR TIGR (an acronym of the place-names ''Trieste, Trst'', ''Istria, Istra'', ''Gorizia, Gorica'', and ''Rijeka, Reka''), fully the Revolutionary Organization of the Julian March T.I.G.R. (), was a Militant (word), militant Anti-fascism, anti-fascis ...

, 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 Klement Jug (19 November 1898 – 11 August 1924) was a Slovene philosopher, essayist and mountaineer who died while climbing Mount Triglav. Although he did not publish many works during his lifetime, he became one of the most influential thi ...

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

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

in Israel. At the

University of Trieste The University of Trieste (, or UniTS, Formerly Regia Università degli Studi or The Royal University of Studies) is a public research university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. The university consists of 10 ...

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 policy under the Fascist regime, is a Slovene– Italian historian and a prominent diplomatic historian of the west Balkans region, as well as ...

Work

Journalism, literature, and alpinism

He has worked in the

Slovene language Slovene ( or ) or Slovenian ( ; ) is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic language of the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. Most of its 2.5 million speakers are the ...

section of the regional

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service for

Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea. Friuli-Venezia Giulia has an area of and a ...

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

Sodobnost ''Sodobnost'' () 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 traditionally been a magazine focused on cultural an ...

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

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 un ...

members, ''Upor obsojenih oz Kobarid 38' – Kronika atentata'', that was put on stage a decade later by

Slovene theatre in Trieste The Slovene Civic Theatre in Trieste ( Slovene: ''Slovensko stalno gledališče''; Italian: ''Teatro Stabile Sloveno'') is the professional theatre of the Slovene minority in Trieste. The building was designed in the 1960s by Edo Mihevc, a Slove ...

. In his book 'Starry Nights' (Slovene: ''Zvezdnate noči''), he wrote about his experiences in the 1986

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

n expedition to the

Karakoram The Karakoram () is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Most of the Karakoram mountain range is withi ...

mountain range, that conquered the 8047 m high

Broad Peak Broad Peak (; ) is one of the eight-thousanders, and is located in the Karakoram range spanning Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China. It is the 12th highest mountain in the world with elevation above sea level. The first ascent of t ...

. It was published as serial in

Primorski dnevnik (), 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 daily newspapers in Italy published in a langu ...

, 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 cardinal *Francesco Acerbi (born 1988), Italian footballer * Giovanni Acerbi (1825–1869), Italian soldier and po ...

). 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 applic ...

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 travelogues, 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 The Slovene Littoral, or simply Littoral (, ; ; ), is one of the traditional regions of Slovenia. The littoral in its name – for a coastal-adjacent area – recalls the former Austrian Littoral (''Avstrijsko Primorje''), the Habsburg poss ...

, 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 ...

, Tone Svetina,

Igor Škamperle Igor Škamperle (born 21 November 1962) is a Slovenian sociologist, cultural theory, cultural theorist, novelist, essayist, mountaineer and translator. He was born in a Slovene language, Slovene-speaking family in Trieste, Italy. He studied com ...

, 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'' () 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 editorial and b ...

, 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