Iztok Osojnik

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Iztok Osojnik
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Born (1951-07-27) 27 July 1951 (age 71)
Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
OccupationPoet and essayist
Notable worksKlesani kamni, Razgledice za Darjo
Notable awards Jenko Award
1996 for Klesani kamni
Veronika Award
1997 for Razgledice za Darjo

Iztok Osojnik (born 27 July 1951) is a Slovene poet and essayist. Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association. [1]

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Osojnik was born in Ljubljana in 1951. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of the literary historian and philosopher Dušan Pirjevec. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Jure Detela and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). [2] Between 1980 and 1982 he continued his graduate studies at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. In 2000 he was a fellow of the Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary English Writers and in 2001 a fellow of the Goethe Institute in Berlin. Between 2002 and 2003 he visited the US on a Fulbright Fellowship.

He has published several collections of poetry. In 1996 he received the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Klesani kamni (Carved Stones). [3] His poems have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Malay, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Osojnik lives and works in Ljubljana.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  2. University of Vienna site, Literatur im Kontext Archived 2012-12-03 at archive.today
  3. Maribor Public Library site The Jenko Award Laureates