Nationality Slovenian Name Marko Kravos | Role Poet Awards Preseren Fund Award | |
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Born 16 May 1943Montecalvo Irpino, Italy ( 1943-05-16 ) Occupation poet, writer, translator Notable works Trinajst, Tretje oko, Jazonova sled Notable awards Preseren Foundation Award1982 for his poetry collection Tretje okoAstrolabio d'oro2000 for poethry Books Kratki casi: Trst iz zabje perspektive, Deep breathing Similar People Niko Grafenauer, Srecko Kosovel, Katalena, Dane Zajc, Svetlana Makarovic | ||
Na pesniškem tandemu – Marko Kravos in Fabjan Hafner
Marko Kravos (16 May 1943) is a Slovene poet, writer, essayist and translator from Trieste, Italy.
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- Na pesnikem tandemu Marko Kravos in Fabjan Hafner
- Awards
- Poetry
- Prose for adults
- Prose for children
- Translations
- References
He was born in Montecalvo Irpino, a small village in the Southern Italian region of Irpinia, where his family was sent to confination by the Italian Fascist regime. He spent his childhood in Trieste, where he attended Slovene language schools. After graduating in Slavic philology at the University of Ljubljana in 1969, in Slovenia (then part of former Yugoslavia), he worked in several publishing houses in Trieste. He also worked as Slovene language professor at the University of Trieste. Between 1996 and 2000, he served as president of the Slovenian section of the International P.E.N..
Kravos writes poetry, essays and children literature, as well as screenplays for radio. He is most renowned for his lyrical poems, which have been translated into 17 languages. His most famous poem is 'Jason's Trace' (Jazonova sled).
Kravos also translates from Italian, Croatian and Spanish to Slovene. Among other, he translated works by Scipio Slataper, Elio Vittorini and Octavio Paz.
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