Lili Novy
Illustration — Lili Novy in 1936 Lili Novy née Haumeder (24 December 1885 – 7 March 1958) was a Slovene poet and translator of poetry. She is considered the first Slovene female lyric poet as well as one of the most important Slovene female poets in general.
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Lili Novy
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- Full name
- Lili Haumeder.
- Born
- 1885. · Graz.
- Died
- 1958. · Ljubljana.
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Serbs and Croats and Slovenes.
- Occupation
- linguist, translator, poet and writer.
- Languages
- German and Slovene.
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Illustration — Lili Novy in 1936 Lili Novy née Haumeder (24 December 1885 – 7 March 1958) was a Slovene poet and translator of poetry. She is considered the first Slovene female lyric poet as well as one of the most important Slovene female poets in general.
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Lili Novy (1885–1958) was a children's writer, linguist and poet, among other activities, a national of Austria–Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The children's writer was born Lili Haumeder in Graz and died in Ljubljana. Languages used include German and Slovene.
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Biography
Biography
She was born in Graz as Lili Haumeder to an ethnic German father named Guid Haumeder and a Slovene mother Ludvika Ahačič. She was educated privately and began writing poetry in German. In her mid twenties she began to include herself in the Slovene literary scene and began translating Prešeren's German poems into Slovene and vice versa and also began publishing in literary magazines. She also translated a lot of Goethe into Slovene. Gradually, under the influence of Alojz Gradnik, she began writing her own poetry in Slovene. During her lifetime only one collection of her own poems was published: Temna vrata (Dark Door) (1941). After spending an entire life on the move with a husband in the military, Lili Novy eventually settled in Ljubljana.
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Identity
Lili Novy is recorded as a citizen of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Recorded with the occupation children's writer. Recorded at birth as Lili Haumeder. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Lili Novi and Lili Haumeder. Her recorded languages were German and Slovene.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1885
Lili Novy was born on 24 December 1885.
1958
Lili Novy died on 7 March 1958.
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Graz.
Birth place
Ljubljana.
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Published work
• Temna vrata (Dark Door) - poetry collection (1941) • Oboki (Arches) - poetry collection (1959) • Pikapoka - collection of children's poems (1968) • Majhni ste na tem velikem svetu (You are Small in this Big World) - collection of children's poems (1973)
Death and legacy
Novy died in 1958 at Ljubljana. She was 72 years old. Her bust marks the house in the centre of the old town where she lived. One of the halls in the Cankar Hall Cultural Centre in Ljubljana is also named after her. In the 1970s, the essayist Jože Javoršek published a monograph on Novy which led to a positive reassessment of her work.
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