Marko Kravos is a Slovene poet

Poet

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, writer

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, essayist and translator from Trieste

Trieste

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, Italy

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He was born in Montecalvo Irpino

Montecalvo Irpino

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, a small village in the Southern Italian region of Irpinia

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, where his family was sent to confination by the Italian Fascist

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 regime. He spent his childhood in Trieste

Trieste

Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...

, where he attended Slovene language schools. After graduating in Slavic philology at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 in 1969, in Slovenia

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 (then part of former Yugoslavia

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), he worked in several publishing houses in Trieste. He also worked as Slovene language professor at the University of Trieste

University of Trieste

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. Between 1996 and 2000, he served as president of the Slovenian section of the International P.E.N..

Kravos writes poetry, essays and children literature, as well as screenplays for radio. He is most renowned for his lyrical poems, which have been translated into 17 languages. His most famous poem is 'Jason's Trace' (Jazonova sled).

Kravos also translates from Italian

Italian language

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, Croatian

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 and Spanish

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 to Slovene. Among other, he translated works by Scipio Slataper

Scipio Slataper

Scipio Slataper was an Italian language writer from Trieste, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste....

, Elio Vittorini

Elio Vittorini

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 and Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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