Iztok Osojnik
Iztok Osojnik (born 27 July 1951) is a Slovene poet and essayist. Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of the literary historian and philosopher Dušan Pirjevec.
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- Name
- Iztok Osojnik
- Born
- 27 July 1951
- Birthplace
- Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- Poet and essayist
- Nationality
- Slovenia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Education
- Kansai Gaidai University · University of Ljubljana
- Honours
- Fulbright Scholarship · Gold Coin of Poetry
- Languages
- Slovene
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Iztok Osojnik (born 27 July 1951) is a Slovene poet and essayist. Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of the literary historian and philosopher Dušan Pirjevec.
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Iztok Osojnik (born 1951) is a Slovenian and Yugoslav essayist, linguist and poet, among other activities. The essayist was born in Ljubljana. Iztok Osojnik studied at Kansai Gaidai University and University of Ljubljana.
Languages used include Slovene. The essayist received Fulbright Scholarship and Gold Coin of Poetry.
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In his college years he collaborated with the poet Jure Detela and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Between 1980 and 1982 he continued his graduate studies at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. In 2000 he was a fellow of the Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary English Writers and in 2001 a fellow of the Goethe Institute in Berlin. Between 2002 and 2003 he visited the US on a Fulbright Fellowship. He has published several collections of poetry. In 1996 he received the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Klesani kamni (Carved Stones). His poems have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Malay, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Osojnik lives and works in Ljubljana.
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• Name — Iztok Osojnik • Born — 27 July 1951 • Birthplace — Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia • Occupation — Poet and essayist • Notable Works — Klesani kamni, Razgledice za Darjo
Works in English
Works in English
• Alluminations (2000) • And Some Things Happen for the first Time (2001) • New and Selected Poems (2010) • Elsewhere (2011)
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Iztok Osojnik is recorded as having received Fulbright Scholarship and Gold Coin of Poetry.
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1951
Iztok Osojnik was born in 1951 at Ljubljana.
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- 1.DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Slovene Writers' Association site. Slovene writers' portal.
- 2.University of Vienna site, Literatur im Kontext
- 3.Maribor Public Library site The Jenko Award Laureates
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- Nasmeh Mone Lize (Mona Lisa's Smile)
- Temni julij (Dark July)
- Nekoč je bila Amerika (Once upon a Time There Was America)
- Iz Novega sveta (From the New World)
- Gospod Danes (Mister Today)
- Zgodba o Dušanu Pirjevcu in meni (The Story of Dušan Pirjevec and Myself)
- Spleen Berlina (The Spleen of Berlin)
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