Kajetan Kovič
Kajetan Kovič (21 October 1931 – 7 November 2014) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist. Kovič was born in Maribor, Yugoslavia. Kovič started writing poetry in high school, and he published his first poetry in 1948.
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| Born | 21 October 1931 Maribor, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) |
| Died | 7 November 2014 (aged 83) Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | poet, writer, journalist |
| Literary movement | Intimism |
| Notable works | Pesmi štirih, Ogenjvoda, Labrador, Ne bog ne žival, Moj prijatelj Piki Jakob, Maček Muri |
| Notable awards | Prešeren Award 1978 for his poetry collection Labrador Jenko Award 1993 for his poetry collection Sibirski cirkus |
Kovič also wrote political poetry, such as a poem in honor of Josip Broz Tito.[1] He established himself as a translator of German, French, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, and Russian poetry into Slovene. He also translated the poems that France Prešeren wrote in German into Slovene.[2]
Kovič died on 7 November 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aged 83.[3]
References
- ↑ Kovič, Kajetan. 1980. "Tito." Javna tribuna 20(184): 7.
- ↑ "University of Vienna site". Literatur im Kontext. University of Vienna. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ↑ Kos, David, & Deja Crnović. 2014. "Umrl je pesnik in pisatelj Kajetan Kovič." Siol.net (7 Nov.). Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Slovene)