Ciril Zlobec is a Slovene poet

Poet

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, writer

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, translator, journalist

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 and former politician

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. He is best known for his poems and has published several volumes of poetry. In 1990 he became a member of the Presidency of Slovenia at a critical time for Slovene independence.

Zlobec was born in 1925 in Ponikve

Ponikve, Sežana

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 in the Slovene Littoral which was under Italian administration

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

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 at the time. He attended school in Gorizia

Gorizia

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 and Koper and was expelled from school in 1941 for writing poetry in the then forbidden Slovene language. During the Second World War he was an activist for the Slovene Liberation Front and briefly joined the Partisans. After the war he completed his studies and graduated at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 in 1953. He worked as a journalist and translator published numerous collections of poetry as well as two novels. In 1989 he was made a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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.
He won the Prešeren Foundation Award

Prešeren Award

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 in 1965 for his poetry collection Najina oaza (Our Oasis) and the Grand Prešeren Award

Prešeren Award

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 in 1982 for his poetry collection Glas (Voice)

Poetry collections

• Pesmi štirih (1953) co-authered with Janez Menart
  Janez Menart
  Janez Menart has been one of the most influential and most widely sold Slovenian poets, translators and screenwriters from the first post-war generation...
  
  , Kajetan Kovič
  Kajetan Kovič
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   and Tone Pavček
  Tone Pavček
  Tone Pavček was one of the most influential Slovene poets, translators and essayists from the first post-war generation. He published a number of collections of poetry, well received by readers and critics alike...
  
  
• Pobeglo otroštvo (1957)
• Ljubezen (1958)
• Najina oaza (1964)
• Pesmi jeze in ljubezni (1968)
• Čudovita pustolovščina (1971)
• Dve žgoči sonci (1973)
• Vračanja na Kras (1974)
• Kras (1976)
• Pesmi (1979)
• Glas (1980)
• Pesmi ljubezni (1981)
• Beseda (1985)
• Nove pesmi (1985)
• Rod (1988)
• Moja kratka večnost (1990)
• Ljubezen dvoedina (1993)
• Stopnice k tebi (1995)
• Skoraj himne (1995)
• Ti – jaz – midva (1995)
• Mojih sedemdeset (1995)
• Čudež telovzetja (2004)

Novels

• Moška leta našega otroštva (1962)
• Moj brat svetnik (1970)
• Spomin kot zgodba, autobiographical novel, (1998)