Miran Ogrin Explained

Miran Ogrin
Death Place:	Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation:	journalist and travelogue writer

Miran Ogrin (1914–1985) was a Slovene journalist who worked for the Nedeljski dnevnik weekly newspaper.^[1] He travelled extensively and published a number of travelogues. His books are packed with factual information, but have been criticized for lacking a personal note.^[2]

He won the Levstik Award in 1974 for his book on travelling the length of the Americas Od Kalifornije do Ognjene zemlje (From California to the Land of Fire).^[3]

Bibliography

• Daleč od civilizacije: življenje plemen ob Amazonki (Far from Civilization: the Lives of Tribes along the Amazon), 1956
• Srednji vzhod (The Middle East), 1961
• Od Nila do Karatgene (From the Nile to Carthage), 1967
• Širine sveta (The Breadths of the World), 1969
• Na jugi sveta (At the South of the World), 1969
• Od Kalifornije do Ognjene zemlje (From California to the Land of Fire), 1974
• Vzhodni veter: od Urala do Kitajske in arabskih pustinj (An Eastern Wind: From the Urals to China and the Arab Deserts), 1978
• Po stopinjah Aleksandra Velikega (Following the Footsteps of Alexander the Great), 1982

Notes and References

1. News: Popotnik nove dobe objavlja na spletu . Dobnikar Šeruga . sl . Traveller of the new age publishes online . Romana . 2014-07-15 . . 2017-09-19.
2. Slovenski potopis . Andrijan . Lah . sl . The Slovene Travel Journal . Jezik in slovstvo . 1984 . 29 . 5 . 163–171.
3. Web site: Levstikova nagrada . Mladinska knjiga . 2017-09-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . 2018-08-26 . dead .