Literary movement Intimism Name Kajetan Kovic | Role Poet Movies Muri The Cat | |
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Occupation poet, writer, journalist Notable works Pesmi stirih, Ogenjvoda, Labrador, Ne bog ne zival, Moj prijatelj Piki Jakob, Macek Muri Notable awards Preseren Award1978 for his poetry collection LabradorJenko Award1993 for his poetry collection Sibirski cirkus Books Work Poems of the four, Moj prijatelj Piki Jakob Awards Preseren Award, Preseren Fund Award Similar People Tone Pavcek, Ciril Zlobec, Janez Menart, Dane Zajc, Miroslav Kosuta | ||
Kajetan kovi bela pravljica
Kajetan Kovič (21 October 1931 – 7 November 2014) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist.
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Life
Kovič was born in Maribor in 1931 and spent his childhood in the small town of Poljčane and Hrastje–Mota near Radenci in eastern Slovenia. He graduated from high school in Maribor and received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana in 1956. He died on 7 November 2014.
Career
Kovič started writing poetry in high school, and he published his first poetry in 1948. He was best known for his poems and he wrote several bestselling children's books. Kovič also wrote political poetry, such as a poem in honor of Josip Broz Tito. He established himself as a translator of German, French, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, and Russian poetry into Slovene. He also translated the poems that France Prešeren wrote in German into Slovene.
Awards and recognition
Kovič won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1967 for his poetry collection Ogenjvoda and the Grand Prešeren Award in 1978 for his poetry collection Labrador. In 1995 he was made a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Poetry collections
Prose
Children's books
