Janez Stanič

Janez Stanič (4 January 1937 – 28 October 1996) was a Slovene journalist and translator. He was considered one of the best socio-political analysts of his generation and was often outspoken and critical of the Soviet regime.[1]

Janez Stanič
Born(1937-01-04)4 January 1937
Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia)
Died28 October 1996(1996-10-28) (aged 59)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupationjournalist and translator
Notable awardsLevstik Award
1968 for Onkraj Kremlja

Stanič was born in Ljubljana in 1937. He studied Slovene and Russian at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1961. He worked for the newspaper Delo, first as their Moscow correspondent and later as an editor. From 1975 he worked at the Slovene National Broadcaster and from 1991 as head of the Cankarjeva Založba publishing house. He died in Ljubljana in 1996.[2]

He won the Levstik Award in 1968 for his book Onkraj Kremlja (The Other Side of the Kremlin).[3]

Selected published works
  • Onkraj Kremlja (The Other Side of the Kremlin), 1968
  • Češkoslovaška nevarnost, Praška pomlad in Praška zima (The Czechoslovak Danger, Prague Spring and Prague Winter), 1969
  • Znana in neznana Sovjetska Zveza (The Known and Unknown Soviet Union), 1978
  • Razpotja komunizma (Communismns Crossroads), 1980
  • Bele lise socializma (White Patches of Socialism), 1986
  • Kronike preloma (Chronicles of the Turning Point), collection of articles from 1985 to 1995), 1997

References
  1. "Open Society Archives site [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|Radio Free Europe]] Research: Yugoslav Author Attacks Soviet Theory Of Limited Sovereignty 30 February 1980" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  2. Obituary at the Slovenian Press Agency site
  3. "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-05-15.


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