Veno Taufer , actually Wenceslas Taufer ( Slovenian. Veno Taufer, Venceslav Taufer , February 19, 1933 , Ljubljana ) - Slovenian poet, essayist, playwright, translator, the largest figure in literary life in Slovenia in the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries.
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Biography
Father is a left-liberal activist, during the Second World War a member of the partisan movement, killed by the Nazis in 1943 . Wenceslas in the second half of the 1950s studied at the University of Ljubljana , made his debut in poetry in the student magazine Tribune ( 1956 ). He became the center of the circle of intellectuals who opposed official cultural policy, co-editor of the first independent Journal 57 . The magazine was closed by the authorities; Taufer was imprisoned. In the early 1960s, he worked for a short time on television, staged performances in the alternative theater Oder 57 , and collaborated with the alternative magazine Perspective . In 1966 - 1970 he worked in London on the BBC . In the 1980s he became one of the founders of the magazine New Review . In 1987 he joined the Committee on the Protection of Human Rights, actively participated in the democratization of the country. One of the founders of one of the first non-communist parties - the Slovenian Democratic Union . During the decade of the Yugoslav Wars, he participated in the organization of humanitarian aid, along with Drago Janczar , Niko Grafenauer and others. Delivering this aid to besieged Sarajevo .
Creativity
He was influenced by European modernism - from Baudelaire to Pound . His poetic collection Songbook with Old Words ( 1975 ) was called the first monument of Slovenian postmodernism .
He translated poems by Hopkins , Cavafy , W. B. Yeats , T. S. Eliot , W. Stevens , Jeffrey Hill , Thomas Wentslova , etc.
Artwork
Poems
- Lead stars / Svinčene zvezde ( 1958 )
- The Prisoner of Liberty / Jetnik prostosti ( 1963 )
- Tasks and exercises / Vaje in naloge ( 1969 )
- Podatki ( 1972 )
- Prigode ( 1973 )
- Pesmarica rabljenih besed ( 1975 )
- Ravnanje žebljev in druge pesmi ( 1979 )
- Sonnets / Sonetje ( 1979 )
- Tercine za obtolčeno trobento ( 1985 )
- Watermarks / Vodenjaki ( 1986 )
- Shards of Songs / Črepinje pesmi ( 1989 )
- Nihanje molka ( 1994 )
- Silent Odes / Še ode ( 1996 )
- Strands / Kosmi ( 2000 )
- Rotitve ( 2003 )
- Letter in a Bottle / Pismo v steklenici ( 2006 )
Dramas
- Prometej ali tema v zenici sonca ( 1964 )
- Odisej in sin ali svet in dom ( 1990 )
Essays
- Ob londonskem gledališkem poldnevniku ( 1970 )
- Avantgardna in eksperimentalna gledališča ( 1975 )
- Odrom ob rob ( 1977 )
- Zvenčanje verig ( 2004 )
Publications in Russian
- Poetry of Slovenia. XX century / Comp. A. Romanenko. - M .: Fiction, 1989.
- Poems translated by Grigory Kruzhkov . Date of treatment December 16, 2012. Archived January 19, 2013.
- From century to century. Slovenian poetry / Comp. S.N. Glovyuk, M. Golla, N. Grafenauer, S. Dobrovets, J.V. Perkovskaya. - M .: Pranat, 2008.
Recognition
The Prešere Foundation Prize for Poetry ( 1975 ), the Prešern Prize for Life Achievement ( 1996 ) and other awards. Chairman of the Slovenian Writers Association (since 2011 ).
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Discogs - 2000.