Jure Detela

Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer, and essayist.[1]

Jure Detela
Born(1951-02-12)12 February 1951
Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Died(1992-01-17)17 January 1992
Ljubljana, Slovenia
OccupationPoet, writer and essayist
NationalitySlovenian
Notable worksPesmi, Haiku = Haiku
Notable awardsJenko Award
1992 for Pesmi

Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied art history 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 he later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Apart from poetry, he also published the autobiographical novel Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988.[2] He died in Ljubljana in 1992.

Honors

In 1992 Detela was posthumously awarded the Jenko Award in 1995 for poetry.[3] The 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts (2017) in Ljubljana takes its title Birth as Criterion from one of Detela's poems as translated by Raymond Miller.[4]

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 on Art), collection of essays, 2005

References
  1. Poetry International Web Slovenian poetry: between elegy and serenity
  2. University of Vienna site, Literatur im Kontext Archived 3 December 2012 at Archive.today
  3. "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  4. The 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts (2017) Ljubljana


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