Ivan Minatti (22 March 1924 – 9 June 2012) was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor.[1] He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets.[2] He is one of the best representatives of Slovene Intimism.[1]

Life

Minatti was born in 1924 in Slovenske Konjice in northeastern Slovenia.[1] His family moved first to Slovenj Gradec and then to Ljubljana while he was still a child.[3] He attended Gymnasium in Ljubljana, finished it in 1943, and then enrolled in medical studies, but postponed his education to join the Partisans in 1944.[4] After the war, he studied Slavic studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1952.[5] He worked as an editor at Mladinska Knjiga publishers from 1947 until his retirement in 1984.[3] He became a regular member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1991.[1] He died at the age of 88[1] and was buried at Žale in Ljubljana.[6]

Work

Minatti's poems, influenced by the horrors of the war, are lyrical and deal with modern-age resignation and melancholy.[1] According to the poet Boris A. Novak, his work signified a radical break with collectivist postwar poetry and the start of personal poetry, making Minatti one of the breakthrough Slovene poets of the 20th century.[5] The poet and translator Veno Taufer characterised him as a rock-steady and, at the same time, of a soft heart, and ascribed his success to his expression of human as well as social distress in postwar Communist Slovenia.[5] Minatti is known for his references to nature. According to the poet Ciril Zlobec, he used nature as a source of deep symbols and metaphors for man and his life.[6]

Awards

Minatti won the Prešeren Fund Award in 1964 for his poetry collection You Have to Love Somebody (Slovene: Nekoga moraš imeti rad).[7] In 1972, he won the Sovre Award, bestowed for the best translations into Slovene, for his translations of lyrical poems by the Macedonian poet Kočo Racin and the Bosnian poet Izet Sarajlić.[8] In 1985, he won the Prešeren Award for his poetry collection I Listen to the Silence Inside Me (Prisluškujem tišini v sebi).[9]

Poetry collections

  • Off-Trail (S poti, 1947)
  • And the Spring Will Come (Pa bo pomlad prišla, 1955)
  • You Have to Love Somebody (Nekoga moraš imeti rad, 1963)
  • The Wind Sings (Veter poje, 1963)
  • The Pain of the Unexperienced (Bolečina nedoživetega, 1964)
  • Poems (Pesmi, 1971)
  • The Face (Obraz, 1972)
  • When I Am Silent and Good (Ko bom tih in dober, 1973)
  • The Poems (Pesmi, 1977) - with Janez Menart and Lojze Krakar
  • I Eavesdrop on the Silence Within Me (Prisluškujem tišini v sebi, 1984)
  • Behind the Closed Eyelids: Chosen Poems (Pod zaprtimi vekami, izbrane pesmi, 1999)
  • Minatti – Chosen Lyrical Poetry (Minatti – izbrana lirika, 2004)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Ivan Minatti, Poet, Has Died". English Service: News. Slovenian Press Agency. 10 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Umrl je pesnik in prevajalec Ivan Minatti" [Ivan Minatti, Poet and Translator, Has Died]. MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. 9 June 2012.
  4. ^ B. Pynsent, Robert; I. Kanikova, Sonia, eds. (1993). Reader's encyclopedia of Eastern European literature. HarperCollins. p. 267. ISBN 9780062700070.
  5. ^ a b c "Po Minattijevi smrti: bil je velik pesnik" [After Minatti's Death: He Was a Great Poet]. 24ur.com. PRO PLUS, d. o. o. 10 June 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Zlobec: Minatti je poezijo živel z enako intenzivnostjo kot življenje" [Zlobec: Minatti Lived Poetry with the Same Intensivity as Life]. Planet Siol.net (in Slovenian). 15 June 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Nagrade Prešernovega sklada" [Prešeren Fund Awards] (PDF). Slovenian Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 10 June 2012.[dead link‍]
  8. ^ "Sovretovi Nagrajenci" [Sovre Laureates] (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  9. ^ "Prešernove nagrade" [Prešeren Awards] (PDF). Slovenian Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 10 June 2012.[dead link‍]
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