Books Haiku | Role Poet Name Jure Detela | |
Born 12 February 1951
Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) ( 1951-02-12 ) Occupation Poet, writer and essayist Notable awards Jenko Award
1992 for Pesmi Died January 17, 1992, Ljubljana, Slovenia | ||
Notable works Pesmi, Haiku = Haiku Education University of Ljubljana | ||
Pesnik Jure Detela recitira
Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer and essayist.
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Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied History of Art 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 later participated in the avantgarde group called Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Apart from poetry he also published an autobiographic novel Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988. He died in Ljubljana in 1992.
Honors
In 1992 Detela was posthumously awarded the Jenko Award in 1995 for poetry. 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.