Ivo Zorman Explained
Ivo Zorman (3 May 1926 – 14 January 2009) was a Slovene writer and editor. He wrote short stories and novels as well as radio plays.[1]
Zorman was born in the village of Gora near Komenda in central Slovenia in 1926.[2] He went to school in Ljubljana and as a young man participated in the Slovene resistance and joined the Partisans. After the war he worked as a teacher for a while and then an editor until his retirement in 1977. He often used themes from his experiences in the war in his work. One of his best-known novels is Draga moja Iza (Μy Dear Iza) which was made into a film in 1979.[3] He died in Kamnik in 2009.
In 1969 he won the Levstik Award for his book V tem mesecu se osipa mak (This is the Month the Poppies Scatter).[4]
Published works
- Adult Prose
- Trije Borjanovi (The Borjan Three), 1955
- Čez dvajset let bo vse drugače (In Twenty Years All Will Be Different), 1968
- Pedagoška komedija (The Educational Comedy), 1971
- Draga moja Iza (My Dear Iza), 1973
- Sončnica navadna (The Plain Sunflower), 1974
- Stric Benjamin (Uncle Benjamin), 1977
- Medved z budilko (The Bear with an Alarm Clock), 1982
- Vonj po jeseni (Smell of Autumn), 1978
- Dom človekov (A Man's Home), 1981
- Kdo bo meni prižgal sveče (Who Shall Light Candles for Me), 1982
- Portret revolucionarja Malusa (A Portrait of Malus the Revolutionary), 1985
- Leta herojev (Years of Heroes), 1988
- Lectovo srce (Lebkuchen Heart), 1989
- V znamenju tehtnice (In the Sign of Virgo), 1989
- Stiska bogov (Anguish of the Gods), 1991
- Donata (Donata), 1991
- Kajnov rod (Cain's Clan), 1991
- Vila Bagari (Villa Bagari), 1997
- Ko odletijo lastovke (When The Swallows Fly Away), 1999
- Okus po marcipanu (A Taste of Marzipan), 2002
- Prose for Young Readers
- Iz obroča (Out of the Ring), 1953
- Svobodni gozdovi (Free Forests), 1954
- Eno samo je življenje (We Only Live Once), 1963
- Na senčni strani mesta (On the Shady Side of Town), 1967
- Gnezdo sršenov (A Hornets' Nest), 1968
- V tem mesecu se osipa mak (This is the Month the Poppies Scatter), 1969
- V sedemnajstem (At Seventeen), 1972
- Storžkovo popoldne (Storžek's Afternoon), 1973
- Rosni zaliv (Dew Bay), 1975
- Tinčevi divji doživljaji (Little Tine's Wild Adventures), 1978
- Naši kurirji (Our Partisan Couriers), 1978
- Uporne Dražgoše (Dražgoše the Village That Rebelled), 1978
- Bolničarka Vida (Vida the Partisan Nurse), 1978
- Rada bi bila velika (I Would Like to Grow Up), 1979
- Obveščevalec Lesnika (Lesnika the Informer), 1979
- Deklica iz Mihovega mlina (The Girl from Miha's Mill), 1982
- Hrčki smrčki (Sniffy Hamsters), 1983
- Oh, ta naša babica (Oh, This Granny of Ours), 1986
- Sla po letenju (A Desire to Fly), 1987
- Račka Puhačka (Fluffy Duckling), 1988
- Ded Nil in teta Filipa (Grandpa Nil and Aunt Phillipa), 1989
- Bolečina odraščanja (Growing Pains), 1993
Notes and References
- http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/knjige/umrl-je-ivo-zorman/157926 Obituary
- Book: Stanko Janež . Živan Milisavac . 1971 . Jugoslovenski književni leksikon . Yugoslav Literary Lexicon . . sh . Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) . 590 .
- http://nl.ijs.si/fedora/get/sbl:4808/VIEW/ Ivo Zorman on the Slovene Biographical Lexicon site
- Web site: The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site . 30 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . 26 August 2018 . dead .
