Ivan Bratko (publisher) explained
Ivan Bratko (15 February 1914 – 23 March 2001) was a Slovene writer and publisher, partisan and officer.
Bratko was born in Celje in 1914.[1] He graduated in law from the University of Ljubljana[1] in 1941. He was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 1933 and published numerous articles and columns on socio-economic matters even before the Second World War. He was interred at Gonars concentration camp from where he escaped and joined the partisan.[1] His escape from Gonars was also the inspiration for his best known book Teleskop (Telescope), for which he won the Levstik Award in 1954.[2] From 1952 until his retirement in 1981 he worked as head of the DZS Publishing House.[3]
He died in Ljubljana in 2001.[4]
Bibliography
- S poti po evropskem zapadu (On the Road in Western Europe), 1950
- Teleskop (Telescope), novel, 1954
- Pomlad v februarju (Spring in February), novel, 1957
- Vroči asfalt Evrope (The Hot Asphalt of Europe), short stories, 1962
- Rakete in sekvoje (Rockets and Sequoias), travelogue, 1965
- Dekletov dnevnik (A Girl's Diary), 1969
- Čas knjige (The Time of the Book), 1972
- Okrogla miza (Round Table), 1977
Notes and References
- Book: Stefan Barbarič . Živan Milisavac . 1971 . Jugoslovenski književni leksikon . Yugoslav Literary Lexicon . . sh . Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) . 50 .
- Web site: The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site . 4 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . 26 August 2018 . dead .
- http://icarus.dzs.si/index.php?menu_id=102&content_id=66&img_type=1&foto=1&par_id=0,8,54,102 DZS Publishing House site
- http://www.sta.si/vest.php?s=s&id=553128 Slovenian Press Agency, Preminil pisatelj in založnik Ivan Bratko (Writer and Publisher Ivan Bratko dies), 26 March 2001
