Iztok Osojnik
Iztok Osojnik (born July 27, 1951 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian writer .
Life
Osojnik studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana , his teacher was Dušan Pirjevec . With the poet Jure Detela , he brought out a sub-real manifesto and was part of the avant-garde group Pisarna Aleph . Between 1980 and 1982 he studied for a Masters at Osaka Gaidai University in Osaka , Japan . He has been invited to various fellowships and guest lectureships: in 2000 he was a fellow at the Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary British writers, in 2001 a fellow at the Goethe Institute in Berlin , and between 2002 and 2003 he visited the USA with the Fulbright program . The literary festival "Kristal Vilenica", founded in 1986, was under his direction between 1999 and 2004.
He has published various collections of his poems, has written four novels to date and has received various awards. There are translations in several European languages. Osojnik published anthologies of Slovenian literature in English translation.
Works
- Iztok Osojnik at worldcat
- Contribution to: Berlin, Odysseus und die Nacht, anthology of contemporary Slovenian poetry. , Ljubljana 2010, ISBN 978-961-92946-0-4
- Deafness on the pontoon bridge in: Literature and Criticism , No. 387/388 Sep. 2004
Selection of works from Slovenian titles
- Temni julij ("Dark July")
- Nekoč je bila Amerika ("Once upon a time America")
- Iz Novega sveta ("From the New World")
- Gospod Danes
- Zgodba o Dušanu Pirjevcu in meni ("The story of Dušan Pirjevec and me")
- Spleen Berlina ("Spleen Berlin")
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Osojnik, Iztok |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ljubljana |