Milan Jesih is a Slovene poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, playwright

Playwright

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 and translator. He is the current president of the Slovene Writers' Association

Slovene Writers' Association

The Slovene Writers' Association is a non-profit association of Slovene writers based in Ljubljana.The Association was founded on 21 April 1872 in Ljubljana at the initiative of Davorin Trstenjak who also became its first president. It operated under various names over the years and re-adopted its...

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Jesih wa born in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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 in 1950. He studied comparative literature

Comparative literature

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 at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 and was a member of the avant-garde poetry group 442. He is known for his translations from English and Russian into Slovene (Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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, Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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, Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

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He won the Prešeren Foundation Award

Prešeren Award

Prešeren Award is the highest decoration in the field of artistic and in the past also scientific creation in Slovenia awarded each year to one or two eminent Slovene artists...

 in 1986 for his poetry collection Usta and for his plays, the Jenko Award

Jenko Award

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 for his poetry colletion Jambi in 2001, and the Grand Prešeren Award

Prešeren Award

Prešeren Award is the highest decoration in the field of artistic and in the past also scientific creation in Slovenia awarded each year to one or two eminent Slovene artists...

in 2002 for his for his poetic opus.

Poetry collections

• Uran v urinu, gospodar! (1972)
• Legende (1974)
• Kobalt (1976)
• Volfram (1980)
• Usta (1985)
• Soneti (1989)
• Soneti drugi (1993)
• Jambi (2000)