List of Slovenian language poets - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

in Slovene.

A - C

Fran Albreht

Fran Albreht was a Slovenian poet, editor, politician and partisan. He also published under the pseudonym Rusmir....

(1889 - 1965)

Vera Albreht

Vera Albreht was a Slovene poet, writer, publicist and translator.-Life:She was born as Vera Kessler in Krško into the well-to-do family. Her mother was Marija Kessler, nee Trenz, an ethnic German and her father Slovene, Rudolph Kessler...

(1895 - 1971)

Anton Aškerc

Anton Aškerc was a Slovene poet and Roman Catholic priest, best known for his epic poems.Aškerc was born into a peasant family near the town of Rimske Toplice in the Duchy of Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire . His exact birthplace is unknown because his family was on the move at the time...

(1856 - 1912)

France Balantič

France Balantic

France Balantič was a Slovene poet. His works were banished from schools and libraries during the Titoist regime in Slovenia, but since the late 1980s, he has been re-considered as one of the foremost Slovene poets of the 20th century.- Life :Balantič was born in a working class family in Kamnik,...

(1921 - 1943)

Nevin Birsa

Nevin Birsa (Slovene poet)

Nevin Birsa was a Slovene poet.Birsa was born in the village of Branik in the Vipava Valley, in western Slovenia. He studied at the Pedagogic Academy of the University of Ljubljana...

(1947 - 2003)

Matej Bor

Matej Bor was the pen name of Vladimir Pavšič , who was a Slovene poet, translator, playwright, journalist and partisan.-Biography:...

(1913 - 1993)

Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature...

(1876 - 1918)

Anica Černej

Anica Cernej

Anica Černej was a Slovene author and poet.-Career:Černej worked at college of education in Ljubljana, where her main interests were social and pedagogical subjects.-Controversy:...

(1900 - 1944)

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Aleš Debeljak

Aleš Debeljak , is a Slovenian cultural critic, poet, and essayist.- Biography :Debeljak was born in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana in 1985...

(b. 1961)

Karel Destovnik Kajuh

Karel Destovnik, pen name and nom de guerre Kajuh was a Slovenian poet, translator, resistance fighter, and Yugoslav national hero.- Life and work :...

(1922 - 1944)

Pavel Golia

Pavel Golia was a Slovenian poet and dramatist.Between 1907 and 1915, he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Later, he worked as a dramaturge or manager of the national theaters in Ljubljana, Osijek, and Belgrade. His works include two collections of poetry and a christmas children...

(1887 - 1959)

Alojz Gradnik

Alojz Gradnik was a Slovenian poet and translator.-Life:Gradnik was born in the village of Medana in the Goriška Brda region, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is today in the Goriška province of Slovenia. His father was a Slovene from Trieste who came from a poor working family...

(1882 - 1968)

Niko Grafenauer

Niko Grafenauer is a Slovenian poet, essayist, literary historian, editor and translator. He is particularly known as author of popular children literature, and for his active participation in the Slovenian public life, especially in conservative and liberal conservative platforms.He was born in...

(b. 1940)

Simon Gregorčič

Simon Gregorcic

Simon Gregorčič was a Slovene poet and Roman Catholic priest.- Biography :Gregorčič was born in the small mountain village of Vrsno above the river Soča in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca. In 1851, he attended primary school in Libušnje, but was in 1855 sent to school in Gorizia. After...

(1844 - 1906)

Marica Gregorič Stepančič (1874 - 1957)

Igo Gruden

Igo Gruden was a Slovene poet and translator.He was born as Ignacij Gruden in the small fishermen village of Nabrežina near Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca as first of ten children of Franc Gruden and Justina Košuta...

(1893 - 1948)

Ivan Hribovšek (1923 - 1945)

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Miran Jarc

Miran Jarc was a Slovene writer, poet, playwright and essayist.Jarc was born in the town of Črnomelj in White Carniola, in what was then Austria-Hungary in 1900. He was sent to school in Novo Mesto, and between 1918 and 1922 studied Slavic philology in Zagreb and Ljubljana, though he never...

(1900 - 1942)

Urban Jarnik

Urban Jarnik was a Carinthian Slovene priest, historian, poet, author and ethnographer.He was born in the lower Gailtal in the Duchy of Carinthia. He served as a parish priest in several villages and towns throughout southern Carinthia, including Klagenfurt and Moosburg, which at the time still...

(1784 - 1844)

Jože Javoršek

Jože Javoršek was the pen name of Jože Brejc , a Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, translator and essayist. He is regarded as one of the greatest masters of style and language among Slovene authors...

(1920 - 1990)

Simon Jenko

Simon Jenko was a Slovene poet, lyricist and writer.Jenko was born in Podreča in the Sora Plain in Upper Carniola, then part of the Austrian Empire, now in Slovenia, as an illegitimate son of poor peasant parents...

(1835 - 1869)

Janoš Kardoš

János Kardos

János Kardos, also known in Slovene as Janoš Kardoš was a Hungarian Slovenian Evangelic priest, teacher and writer....

(1801 - 1875)

Dragotin Kette

Dragotin Kette was a Slovene Impressionist and Neo-Romantic poet. Together with Josip Murn, Ivan Cankar and Oton Župančič, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature.-Life:...

(1876 - 1899)

Mile Klopčič

Mile Klopčič was a Slovenian poet and translator. Together with Tone Seliškar, he is considered as the foremost representative of Slovene social realist poetry of the 1930s and 1940s....

(1905 - 1984)

Edvard Kocbek

Edvard Kocbek was a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, translator, political activist, and resistance fighter. He is considered as one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren...

(1904 - 1981)

Srečko Kosovel

Srecko Kosovel

Srečko Kosovel was a Slovene expressionist poet who evolved towards avant-garde forms. Since the 1960s, Kosovel has become a poetic icon, in the league of the most prestigious Slovene literates like France Prešeren and Ivan Cankar. Together with Edvard Kocbek, he is considered as the most...

(1904 - 1926)

Jovan Vesel Koseski

205px|thumb|Jovan Vesel KoseskiJanez Vesel, known by his pen name Jovan Koseski , was a Slovene lawyer and poet.Born as Janez Vesel in Spodnje Koseze in the Duchy of Carniola in the...

(1798-1884)

Taja Kramberger

Taja Kramberger is a Slovenian poet, translator, essayist and historical anthropologist.She was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has finished undergraduate studies of history at the , where she studied also archaeology , but left it out when she became engaged in the literary field and...

(b. 1970)

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Fran Levstik

Fran Levstik was a Slovene writer, political activist, playwright and critic. he was one of the most prominent exponents of the Young Slovene political movement.-Life and work:...

(1831 - 1887)

Joža Lovrenčič (1890 - 1952)

Rudolf Maister

Rudolf Maister was a Slovene military officer, poet and political activist. The soldiers who fought under Maister's command in northern Slovenia became known as "Maister's fighters"...

(1874 - 1934)

Svetlana Makarovič

Svetlana Makarovič is a Slovenian writer of prose, poetry, children's books, and picture books, and is also an actress, illustrator and chanteuse .She has been called "The First Lady of Slovenian poetry." She is also noted for borrowing from Slovenian folklore to tell stories of rebellious and...

(b. 1939)

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...

(1929 - 2004)

Josip Murn Aleksandrov

Josip Murn, also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov was a Slovene symbolist poet. Together with Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette, he was regarded as one of the beginners of modernism in Slovene literature...

(1879 - 1901)

Anton Novačan

Anton Novacan

Anton Novačan was a Slovene politician, diplomat, author, and playwright.Novačan was born in a modest peasant family in the village of Zadobrova , in the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

(1887 - 1951)

Josip Osti

Josip Osti is a Bosnian poet, prose writer and essayist, literary critic, anthologist and translator.Osti was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo...

(b. 1945)

Iztok Osojnik

Iztok Osojnik is a Slovenian poet and essayist.He was born in Ljubljana. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of the famous literary historian and philosopher Dušan Pirjevec...

(b. 1951)

Lili Novy

Lili Novy née Haumeder 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....

(1885 - 1958)

Anton Podbevšek

Anton Podbevšek was a Slovenian avant-garde poet. He was an important influence to the poet Srečko Kosovel. He was one of the participants of the artistic activity known as the Novo Mesto Spring in 1920, which marked the beginning of Slovenian modernism...

(1898 - 1981)

France Prešeren

France Prešeren was a Slovene Romantic poet. He is considered the Slovene national poet. Although he was not a particularly prolific author, he inspired virtually all Slovene literature thereafter....

(1800 - 1849)

Franček Rudolf

Francek Rudolf

Franček Rudolf is a Slovenian poet, author, screenwriter, playwright, film director, critic and publicist.Rudolf was born in Lipovci, Slovenia...

(b. 1944)

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Tomaž Šalamun

Tomaz Salamun

Tomaž Šalamun is a Slovenian poet. He was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He has published 39 collections of poetry in his native Slovenian language. Šalamun spent two years at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in...

(b. 1941)

Jakob Savinšek

Jakob Savinšek, was a Slovene sculptor, illustrator and poet.- Life :Savinšek was born in the Upper Carniolan town of Kamnik, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , where he spent his youth. After finishing secondary school in Ljubljana, he studied medicine at the University of...

(1922 - 1961)

Tone Seliškar

Tone Seliškar was a Slovene writer, poet, journalist and teacher. He published poetry, short stories and novels and is also known for his youth literature...

(1900 - 1969)

Brane Senegačnik

Anton Martin Slomšek

Anton Martin Slomšek was a Slovene bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture.Slomšek was born to a peasant family in the hamlet of Slom near the village of Ponikva in the Municipality of Šentjur, Lower Styria. He studied theology and philosophy before being ordained in 1824 at the...

(1800 - 1862)

Jože Snoj

Jože Snoj is a Slovenian poet, novelist, journalist and essayist.He was born in Maribor, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, into a wealthy Slovene family. His uncle, Franc Snoj, was a prominent member of the Slovene People's Party and a minister in the Royal Yugoslav Government...

(b. 1934)

Jožef Stefan (1835 - 1893)

Aleš Šteger

Aleš Šteger is a Slovene poet, writer, editor and literary critic. His poetry has been translated into numerous languages and published in over two hundred literary journals and magazines internationally....

(b. 1973)

Josip Stritar

Josip Stritar was a Slovene writer, poet, playwright, publisher and translator.Stritar spent his early childhood in his home village in rural Lower Carniola and was sent to school in Ljubljana...

(1836 - 1923)

Gregor Strniša

Gregor Strniša was a Slovenian poet, playwright, and songwriter. He is considered as one of the most important Slovene language poet of the second half of the 20th century...

(1929 - 1987)

Vladimir Truhlar (1919 - 1977)

Josipina Turnograjska

Josipina Urbančič , who published under the pen name Josipina Turnograjska , was one of the first Slovene female writers, poets, and composers.-Biography:...

(1833 - 1854)

Jože Udovič (1912 - 1986)

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Cene Vipotnik (1914 - 1971)

Anton Vodnik

Anton Vodnik was a Slovenian poet, art historian, and critic. He was one of the most notable representatives of Slovene Catholic expressionism in the interwar period....

(1901 - 1965)

France Vodnik

France Vodnik was a Slovenian literary critic, essayist, translator and poet from Ljubljana. He was mostly active in the interwar period, when Slovenia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia...

(1903 - 1986)

Valentin Vodnik

Valentin Vodnik was a Slovene priest, journalist and poet from the late Enlightenment period.-Life and work:He was born in Šiška, now a suburb of Ljubljana, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy...

(1758 - 1819)

Božo Vodušek (1905 - 1978)

Stanko Vraz

Stanko Vraz was a Croatian-Slovenian poet. He Slavicized his name to Stanko Vraz in 1836.-Biography:...

(1810 - 1851)

Stanko Vuk (1910 - 1944)

Dane Zajc

Dane Zajc was a Slovenian poet and playwright. He served as president of the Slovene Writers' Association , and was awarded the prestigious Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement...

(1929 - 2005)

Oton Župančič

Oton Župancic

Oton Župančič was a Slovene poet, translator and playwright.Župančič is regarded, alongside Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, as the beginner of modernism in Slovenian literature...