Ivo Svetina

Ivo Svetina (born 9 September 1948) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He has won numerous awards for his plays and poetry collections. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia.[1] In 2014 he was elected President of the Slovene Writers' Association.[2]

Ivo Svetina
Ivo Svetina
Born (1948-09-09) 9 September 1948
Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupationpoet, playwright, translator
Notable worksBotticelli, Peti rokopisi, Sfingin hlev, Lesbos
Notable awardsPrešeren Foundation Award
1988 for Peti rokopisi
Jenko Award
2001 for Sfingin hlev
Veronika Award
2005 for Lesbos

Svetina was born in Ljubljana in 1948. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and worked in numerous experimental theatre companies in the late 1960s and 1970s. He worked at RTV Slovenia and the Mladinsko Theatre.

He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1988 for his poetry collection Peti rokopisi[3] and in 2010 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Sfingin hlev.[4]

Selected works

Poetry collections
  • Plovi na jagodi pupa magnolija do zlatih vladnih palač (1971)
  • Heliks in Tibija (1973)
  • Botticelli (1975)
  • Vaša partijska ljubezen, Očetje! Herojska smrt življenje (1976)
  • Joni (1976)
  • Dissertationes (1977)
  • Bulbul (1982)
  • Marija in živali (1986)
  • Péti rokopisi (1987)
  • Knjiga očetove smrti: videnja, izreki 1989 (1990)
  • Almagest (1991)
  • Disciplina bolečine: stance praznine (1993)
  • Glasovi snega (1993)
  • Disciplina bolečine (1993)
  • Zakoni vode in lesa: 1993-1995 (1997)
  • Svitanice (1998)
  • Svit (2000)
  • Stihi, videnja, izreki (2001)
  • Oblak in gora (2003)
  • Pesmi nevednosti (2004)
  • Lesbos (2005)
  • Vrt pozabe (2005)
  • Na obali oceana tovarna poezije (2008)
  • Pes in Perzijci (2008)
  • Stimmen slowenischer Lyrik 2 (2008)
  • Sfingin hlev (2010)

Plays
  • Lepotica in zver ali Kaj se je zgodilo z Danico D.? (1985)
  • Biljard na Capriju/Šeherezada (1989)
  • Zgodba iz južnega gozda ali Kdo je ubil sonce (1989)
  • Tibetanska knjiga mrtvih (1992)
  • Kamen in zrno (1993)
  • Vrtovi in golobica (1994)
  • Zarika in sončnica (1995)
  • Tako je umrl Zaratuštra (1996)
  • Babilon (1996)
  • Ojdip v Korintu (1999)

Children's Literature
  • Aves, ptičji kralj (1990)
  • Pravljica o jari kači (1990)
  • Deček in muha (1990)
  • Kozel vrtnar (1993)
  • Belin (1997)

References
  1. "National Theatre Museum of Slovenia". Culture.si site. Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  2. Delo 10 Dec 2014 Novi predsednik društva pisateljev je Ivo Svetina Ivo Svetina is the New President of the Writers' Association
  3. Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients
  4. "Slovenian Press Agency (STA) Poetry Award Goes to Ivo Svetina, 24 October 2010". Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2012-01-05.


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