Jure Detela Explained

Jure Detela
Birth Date:12 February 1951
Birth Place:Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Death Place:Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation:Poet, writer and essayist
Nationality:Slovenian
Notableworks:Pesmi, Haiku = Haiku

Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer, and essayist.[1]

Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied art history at the University of Ljubljana. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979, and he later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Apart from poetry, he also published the autobiographical novel Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988.[2] He died in Ljubljana in 1992.

Honors

In 1992 Detela was posthumously awarded the Jenko Award in 1995 for poetry.[3] The 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts (2017) in Ljubljana takes its title Birth as Criterion from one of Detela's poems as translated by Raymond Miller.[4]

Poetry collections

Prose

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20120906165809/http://www.poetryinternational.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=5027 Poetry International Web Slovenian poetry: between elegy and serenity
  2. https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/en/node/24598 University of Vienna site, Literatur im Kontext
  3. Web site: Slovene Writers' Association site . Slovenian . Slovene writers' portal . . 13 February 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120618102229/http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/drustvo_slovenskih_pisateljev/programi/1701/detail.html . 18 June 2012 .
  4. http://www.mglc-lj.si/eng The 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts (2017) Ljubljana