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Kito Lorenc

Kito Lorenc (4 March 1938 – 24 September 2017) was a Sorbian writer, lyric poet and translator. He was a grandson of the writer and politician Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski. Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus from 1952 to 1956 and majored in Slavic studies in Leipzig from 1956 to 1961.

Kito Lorenc

Hornjoserbski basnik Kito Lorenc na čitanju w Berlinje dnja 18. septembra 2013.

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Born
1938. · Schleife.
Died
2017. · Bautzen.
Nationality
Germany and German Democratic Republic.
Occupation
writer, translator, poet, playwright and screenwriter.
Fields
Sorbian literature and Sorbian poetry.
Honours
Heinrich Mann Prize, Ćišinski award, Heinrich-Heine-Preis des Ministeriums für Kultur der DDR and Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony.
Languages
Upper Sorbian, German and Sorbian.

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Kito Lorenc (4 March 1938 – 24 September 2017) was a Sorbian writer, lyric poet and translator. He was a grandson of the writer and politician Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski. Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus from 1952 to 1956 and majored in Slavic studies in Leipzig from 1956 to 1961.

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  3. 03Honours and memberships
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