Kajetan Kovič

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Kajetan Kovič
Born (1931-10-21)21 October 1931
Maribor, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupation poet, writer, journalist
Literary movement Intimism
Notable work(s) Pesmi štirih, Ogenjvoda, Labrador, Ne bog ne žival, Moj prijatelj Piki Jakob, Maček Muri,
Notable award(s) Prešeren Award
1978 for his poetry collection Labrador
Jenko Award
1993 for his poetry collection Sibirski cirkus

Kajetan Kovič (born 21 October 1931) is a Slovene poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is best known for his poems and has written several bestselling children's books.[1]

Kovič was born in Maribor in 1931 and spent his childhood in the small town of Poljčane and Hrastje-Mota near Radenci in eastern Slovenia. He completed secondary school in Maribor and graduated in comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana in 1956.[2]

He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1967 for his poetry collection Ogenjvoda[3] and the Grand Prešeren Award in 1978 for his poetry collection Labrador[4]

Kovič also 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.[5]

In 1995 he was made a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[6]

Poetry collections

  • Utonil bi (1948)
  • Pesmi štirih (1953) co-authered with Janez Menart, Ciril Zlobec and Tone Pavček
  • Prezgodnji dan (1956)
  • Korenine vetra (1961)
  • Ogenjvoda (1965)
  • Vetrnice (1970)
  • Mala čitanka (1973)
  • Pesmi (1973)
  • Labrador (1976)
  • Dežele (1988)
  • Poletje (1990)
  • Letni časi (1992)
  • Sibirski ciklus in druge pesmi raznih let (1992)
  • Lovec (1993)
  • Glas (1998)
  • Vrt (2001)
  • Kalejdoskop (2001)
  • Pesmi (2003)
  • Vse poti so (2009)

Prose

  • Ne bog ne žival (1965)
  • Tekma ali kako je arhitekt Nikolaj preživel konec tedna (1970)
  • Iskanje Katarine (1987)
  • Pot v Trento: prizori iz navadnega življenja Franca M. (1994)
  • Profesor domišljije: ljubljanska zgodba (1996)
  • Jutranji sprehajalec (2005)
  • Sled sence zarje (2006)
  • Mala nebesa (2008)

Children's books

  • Franca izpod Klanca (1963)
  • Zlata ladja (1969)
  • Moj prijatelj Piki Jakob (1972)
  • Maček Muri (1975)
  • Zgodnje zgodbe (1978)
  • Križemkraž (1980)
  • Zmaj Direndaj (1981)
  • Pajacek in punčka (1984)
  • Križemkraž: zgodnje pesmi, zgodnje zgodbe in še malo mačje godbe (1991)
  • Mačji sejem (1999)

References

  1. ↑ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovene). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 11 November 2011. 
  2. ↑ Helga Glušič, Sto Slovenskih Pripovednikov (Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 1996) ISBN 961-6186-21-3
  3. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients
  4. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipents
  5. ↑ "University of Vienna site". Literatur im Kontext. University of Vienna. Retrieved 11 November 2011. 
  6. ↑ Kajetan Kovič on the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts site, (in Slovene)
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