Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar was a well known Slovenian writer, poet, essayist, and political activist.
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Vitomil Zupan
Vitomil Zupan, who also wrote under the pseudonym Langus, was a Slovenian writer, poet, playwright, essayist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important authors in the Slovene language of the second half of the 20th century.
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Prežihov Voranc
Lovro Kuhar, bolj znan pod psevdonimom Prežihov Voranc, slovenski pisatelj in politik.
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Drago Jančar
Drago Jančar je končal Višjo pravno šolo v Mariboru. Med študijem je bil kulturni, glavni in odgovorni urednik študentskega lista Katedra. Po študiju je bil najprej zaposlen kot novinar pri dnevniku Večer, nato je bil svobodni pisatelj, za tem dramaturg pri Viba filmu in nazadnje tajnik in urednik pri založbi Slovenska matica v Ljubljani. Študijsko je večkrat bival v tujini, v ZDA, Veliki Britaniji, Nemčiji. Od leta 2001 je redni član SAZU. Je največkrat prevajani sodobni slovenski pisatelj.
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Jančar je najprej začel s pisanjem pripovednih del v modernistični pripovedni tehniki in pod vplivom francoskega novega romana. V pripovednih delih obravnava spore posameznika z aktualnim družbenim okoljem (roman Petintrideset stopinj, novele O bledem hu -
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Lovro Kuhar, bolj znan pod psevdonimom Prežihov Voranc, slovenski pisatelj in politik.
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Ivan Tavčar
Tavčar was born into a poor peasant family in the Carniolan village of Poljane near Škofja Loka in what was then the Austrian Empire and is now in Slovenia. He started schooling in his home village and continued in Ljubljana from where he was expelled for reasons of discipline. For a while he attended secondary school in Novo mesto and eventually returned to Ljubljana. In 1871 he began studying law at Vienna University. He began his political career in the Provincial Assembly of the Duchy of Carniola, where he formed the core of a radical group of Slovene liberals together with Ivan Hribar. He became one of the leading members of the National Progressive Party and long served as the chief editor of the party journal Slovenski narod, succeed
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Vladimir Bartol
Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in San Giovanni (Slovene: Sveti Ivan), a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste (now in Italy), as the third child of seven children of a middle class Slovene family. His father Gregor Bartol, was a post office clerk, and his mother Marica Bartol Nadlišek was a teacher, a renowned editor and feminist author. Vladimir's parents offered their children extensive education. His mother introduced him to painting, his father to biology. In his autobiographical short stories, Bartol described himself as an oversensitive and slightly odd child with a rich fantasy life. He was interested in many things: biology and philosophy, psychology, art, as well as theatre and literature. As a scientist, he collecte
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh -
Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John Hornby is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2018. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Hornby was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. He has received two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for An Education (2009), and Brooklyn (2015).
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
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Ivan Tavčar
Tavčar was born into a poor peasant family in the Carniolan village of Poljane near Škofja Loka in what was then the Austrian Empire and is now in Slovenia. He started schooling in his home village and continued in Ljubljana from where he was expelled for reasons of discipline. For a while he attended secondary school in Novo mesto and eventually returned to Ljubljana. In 1871 he began studying law at Vienna University. He began his political career in the Provincial Assembly of the Duchy of Carniola, where he formed the core of a radical group of Slovene liberals together with Ivan Hribar. He became one of the leading members of the National Progressive Party and long served as the chief editor of the party journal Slovenski narod, succeed
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Vinko Möderndorfer
Vinko Möderndorfer (1958) je pesnik, pisatelj, dramatik in režiser. Diplomiral je iz režije na Akademiji za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo. Režirati je začel v eksperimentalnem gledališču Glej, zdaj pa sodeluje z različnimi gledališči, kjer je do danes zrežiral nad sto gledaliških in opernih predstav. Dela tudi kot radijski, televizijski in filmski režiser (avtor dveh celovečernih filmov: Predmestje in Pokrajina številka 2). V televizijskem mediju režira predvsem igre in dokumentarne filme po svojih scenarijih. Za radio je napisal prek osemdeset radijskih iger. V knjižni obliki je objavil več kot štirideset del proze, poezije, dramatike in esejistike. Za svoje delo je prejel številne nagrade, med drugim tudi nagrado Prešernovega skla
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Klemen Selakovič
Gostitelj podkasta AIDEA, v katerem promovira nekonvencionalne ideje o zavesti, drogah, tehnologiji in prihodnosti človeštva.
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Podkast ima več kot 13 MILIJONOV prenosov in je na lestvicah pogosto uvrščen kot najbolj poslušan slovenski podkast (lestvica Apple). Trenutno oddaja dosega več kot 300.000 prenosov mesečno. -
Srečko Kosovel
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovene avant-garde poet.
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Since the 1960s, Kosovel has become a poetic icon, in the league of France Prešeren and Edvard Kocbek. He produced an impressive body of work of more than 1000 poems with a quality regarded as unusually high for his age. Most of his works were published almost four decades after his early death.
Srečko Kosovel se je rodil materi Katarini in očetu Antonu kot peti – zadnji otrok. Oče je bil učitelj, doma iz vipavskih Črnič, mati pa iz Sužida na Kobariškem. Imel je brata Stana in tri sestre: Tončko, Karmelo in Anico.
Kmalu po njegovem rojstvu se je družina preselila v Pliskovico na Dolenjem Krasu ker se je oče zameril oblastem, vendar tam niso ostali dolgo. Leta 1908 so se naselili v Tomaju, kjer so -
Drago Jančar
Drago Jančar je končal Višjo pravno šolo v Mariboru. Med študijem je bil kulturni, glavni in odgovorni urednik študentskega lista Katedra. Po študiju je bil najprej zaposlen kot novinar pri dnevniku Večer, nato je bil svobodni pisatelj, za tem dramaturg pri Viba filmu in nazadnje tajnik in urednik pri založbi Slovenska matica v Ljubljani. Študijsko je večkrat bival v tujini, v ZDA, Veliki Britaniji, Nemčiji. Od leta 2001 je redni član SAZU. Je največkrat prevajani sodobni slovenski pisatelj.
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Jančar je najprej začel s pisanjem pripovednih del v modernistični pripovedni tehniki in pod vplivom francoskega novega romana. V pripovednih delih obravnava spore posameznika z aktualnim družbenim okoljem (roman Petintrideset stopinj, novele O bledem hu -
Vladimir Bartol
Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in San Giovanni (Slovene: Sveti Ivan), a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste (now in Italy), as the third child of seven children of a middle class Slovene family. His father Gregor Bartol, was a post office clerk, and his mother Marica Bartol Nadlišek was a teacher, a renowned editor and feminist author. Vladimir's parents offered their children extensive education. His mother introduced him to painting, his father to biology. In his autobiographical short stories, Bartol described himself as an oversensitive and slightly odd child with a rich fantasy life. He was interested in many things: biology and philosophy, psychology, art, as well as theatre and literature. As a scientist, he collecte
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Tone Seliškar
Tone Seliškar se je rodil 1.aprila 1900 v Ljubljani, kot zadnji, sedmi otrok očetu Antonu in materi Mariji. Oče Anton je bil po poklicu strojevodja, tako da se je Tonetu Seliškarju v otroštvu dobro godilo. Šolanje je pričel na osnovni šoli na Vrtači, dokončal pa ga je na učiteljištvu v Ljubljani, kjer je leta 1919 tudi maturiral. Prvo učiteljsko mesto je dobil leta 1919 v Dramljah pri Celju. Leta 1920 je šel poučevat na Prežin nad Štorami, leta 1921 pa v Trbovlje. V Trbovljah je sodeloval pri delavskih socialističnih društvih, režiral in pisal (pesniška zbirka Trbovlje, 1923). Nekaj časa je učiteljeval tudi v Reki pri Laškem in v Cerkljah pri Krškem. Leta 1925 pa je dobil mesto učitelja na meščanski šoli v Ljubljani na Prulah. Leta 1942 je
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Dušan Jovanović
Dušan Jovanović se je rodil leta 1939 v Beogradu. Po koncu vojne, leta 1953, se je z očetom preselil v Ljubljano. Leta 1965 je diplomiral iz angleščine in francoščine na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti ter absolviral režijo na Akademiji za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo. V dramah raziskuje eksistencialno in družbenozgodovinsko problematiko modernega porevolucijskega obdobja. Bil je med prvimi, ki so v slovenski dramatiki uporabili ideje čistega oz. skrajnega modernizma. V svojih prvih delih se je tematike loteval v slogu dramatike absurda, nato bolj realistično in angažirano, približal se je tudi postmodernizmu.
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Tone Partljič
Tone Partljič je nedvomno eden najbolj vsestranskih slovenskih literarnih ustvarjalcev. Začetki njegovega pisanja segajo v šestdeseta leta, od takrat pa je objavil mnogo odmevnih proznih in dramskih del, scenarijev za televizijske in radijske igre ter filme, znan pa je tudi po literarnih delih za mladino. Za svoje ustvarjalne dosežke je prejel številne nagrade: leta 1980 nagrado Prešernovega sklada za satirično-komedijske igre, leta 1982 Levstikovo nagrado za mladinsko književnost za knjigo Hotel sem prijeti sonce (Mladinska knjiga, 1981), leta 1984 Grumovo nagrado za najboljše slovensko dramsko besedilo Moj ata, socialistični kulak (krstna izvedba Drama SNG Maribor, 1983) in leta 2006 Glazerjevo nagrado za življenjsko delo. Leta 2010 je pr
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France Prešeren
France Prešeren was a Slovene Romantic poet. He is considered the Slovene national poet. Although he was not a particularly prolific author, he inspired virtually all Slovene literature thereafter.
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Today, Prešeren is still considered one of the leading poets of Slovenian literature, acclaimed not only nationally or regionally, but also according to the standards of developed European literature. Prešeren was one of the greatest European Romanticists. His fervent, heartfelt lyrics, intensely emotional but never merely sentimental, have made him the chief representative of the Romantic school in Slovenia.
Nevertheless, recognition came slow after his death. It was not before 1866 that a real breakthrough in the reception of his role in Slovenia -
Kajetan Kovič
Rodil se je 21. oktobra 1931 v Mariboru., v učiteljski družini. Otroška leta je preživljal v Poljčanah, kjer je končal prve tri razrede osnovne šole. V četrtem razredu pa se je družina zaradi vojne preselila v Hrastje Mota blizu Gornje Radgone. Tam je spoznal kmečko življenje in tegobe vojnega časa, hkrati pa se mu je pokrajina ob Muri močno vtisnila v spomin. Številne njegove pesmi oživljajo prav podobe narave ob Muri. V tem času je obiskoval šolo v Vučji vasi, Gornji Radgoni ter Mariboru. Po vojni se je s starši preselil v Slatino Radenci in nadaljeval s šolanjem v Mariboru. Obiskoval je klasično gimnazijo v Mariboru, kjer je leta 1950 maturiral. Nato se je vpisal na študij primerjalne književnosti na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti. Dip
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Boštjan Gorenc
Boštjan Gorenc – Pižama živi v majhni vasici na robu Kranjske in če gre verjeti uradnim zaznamkom, se je nekoč tudi rodil. Umrl še ni ali pa to zelo dobro skriva.
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V književnih krogih je poznan predvsem kot prevajalec. Najmlajšim se je priljubil s prevodi serij o Kapitanu Gatniku in Pasjem možu(Pilkey) in Gospodu Gnilcu (Stanton), najstnike je prepričal s prevodi uspešnic Krive so zvezde (Green), Čudo (Palacio) in Eleanor in Park (Rowell), odrasle pa je prestavil v krvavi fantazijski svet Pesmi ledu in ognja (Martin). Za prevod romana Dobra znamenja (Gaiman, Pratchett) je bil leta 2012 uvrščen na častno listo IBBY, Mednarodne zveze za mladinsko književnost.
Z Matejem de Ceccom je izdaltri knjige stripov o Šnofijevi druščini, s katero spravljat