Jure Detela
| Jure Detela | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 February 1951 Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) |
| Died |
17 January 1992 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | Poet, writer and essayist |
| Notable works | Pesmi, Haiku = Haiku |
| Notable awards |
Jenko Award 1992 for Pesmi |
Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer and essayist.[1]
Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied History of Art at the University of Ljubljana. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-realist Manifesto) in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group called Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Apart from poetry he also published an autobiographic novel Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988.[2] He died in Ljubljana in 1992.
In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Jenko Award in 1995 for poetry.[3]
Poetry collections
- Zemljevidi (Maps), 1978
- Mah in srebro (Moss and Silver), 1983
- Pesmi (Poems), 1992
- Haiku = Haiku, with Iztok Osojnik, 2004
Prose
- Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov, (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) novel, 1988
- Zapisi o umetnosti, (Notes of Art) collection of essays, 2005
References
- ↑ Poetry International Web Slovenian poetry: between elegy and serenity
- ↑ University of Vienna site, Literatur im Kontext
- ↑ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 13 February 2012.