Name Ivo Svetina Role Poet | Books Lesbos, Belin, Almagest Awards Preseren Fund Award | |
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Born Notable works Botticelli, Peti rokopisi, Sfingin hlev, Lesbos Notable awards Preseren Foundation Award1988 for Peti rokopisiJenko Award2001 for Sfingin hlevVeronika Award2005 for Lesbos Plays Scheherazade, Oedipus in Corinth |
Ivo svetina sanje v medani 2015
Ivo Svetina (born 9 September 1948) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He has won numerous awards for his plays and poetry collections. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia. In 2014 he was elected President of the Slovene Writers' Association.
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- Ivo svetina sanje v medani 2015
- Ivo svetina stolp
- Poetry collections
- Plays
- Childrens Literature
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Svetina was born in Ljubljana in 1948. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and worked in numerous experimental theatre companies in the late 1960s and 1970s. He worked at RTV Slovenia and the Mladinsko Theatre.
He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1988 for his poetry collection Peti rokopisi and in 2010 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Sfingin hlev.
Ivo svetina stolp
Poetry collections
Plays
Children's Literature
References
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