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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Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
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