Andrej Hieng Explained

Andrej Hieng
Birth Date:17 February 1925
Birth Place:Ljubljana, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now in Slovenia
Death Place:Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation:Writer, playwright, theatre director
Notableworks:Čarodej, Obnebje metuljev, Čudežni feliks

Andrej Hieng (17 February 1925 – 17 January 2000) was a Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.

Hieng was born in Ljubljana in 1925. He studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Ljubljana between 1948 and 1952 and worked as a theatre director in Kranj, Celje and Ljubljana. As well as his plays, he is also known for his novels and short stories.[1]

He received a number of awards including the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1967 for his novel Gozd in pečina,[2] the Grand Prešeren Award in 1988 for his literary and dramatic opus[3] and the Kresnik Award for his novel Čudežni feliks in 1994.[4] In 1995 he was made a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[5] He died in Ljubljana in 2000.

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Notes and References

  1. Helga Glušič, Sto Slovenskih Pripovednikov (Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 1996)
  2. http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/Presernovega_sklada_1962-2011.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients
  3. http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/Presernove_nagrade1947-2011.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
  4. Web site: Slovene Writers' Association site . Slovenian . Slovene writers' portal: Kresnik Award . DSP Slovene Writers' Association . 8 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111114224604/http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/drustvo_slovenskih_pisateljev/prireditve_nagrade/151/detail.html . 14 November 2011 .
  5. http://www.sazu.si/o-sazu/clani/umrli.html Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts site, list of deceased members (in Slovene)