Milan Rúfus
Milan Rúfus (born December 10, 1928 in Závažná Poruba , Czechoslovakia ; † January 11, 2009 in Bratislava , Slovakia ) was a Slovak poet , literary historian , translator and essayist .
Life
Milan Rúfus was born into a family of masons. He attended elementary school in his hometown and high school in Liptovský Mikuláš . From 1948–1952 he studied Slovak and history at the Comenius University in Bratislava .
After completing his university studies, he taught Slovak and Czech literary history at the philosophy faculty of this university until 1989. In 1971 and 1972 he also worked as a visiting professor at a university in Naples , where he taught Slovak language and literature.
In 1990 he retired and lived with his family in Bratislava until his death.
plant
He published his first poems in the 1940s, the first collection of poems Až dozrieme ( Until We Ripe ) in 1956. More than 30 books followed. The children's book Modlitbičky ( Little Prayers ) is considered his most successful work, but also his last volumes Báseň a čas ( Poetry and Time , 2005) and Vernosť ( Faithfulness , 2007)
The work of the evangelical Christian is characterized by religious poetry, repeatedly addressing values such as humanity, modesty and worldly and divine love. Like most authors, it was only tolerated during the communist era. His poems in German adaptation were published by Gollenstein Verlag (Blieskastel, Germany) in 1996 under the title Strenges Brot .
As part of his translation work, he handed down Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt into Slovak in 1966 , as well as works by František Hrubín , Sergei Alexandrowitsch Jessenin , Michail Jurjewitsch Lermontow and Josef Kajetán Tyl .
Awards
Rúfus, whose work has been translated into 15 languages, has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature every year since 1991 .
In Slovakia he received several prestigious awards, including the State Prize for Literature (1970), the TG Masaryk Order (1991) and the Ľudovít Štúr Order, First Class (1995).
Most recently he won the International Crane Summit Award for Poetry 2008, as a result of which his poems are also translated into Mandarin .
On January 30, 2010, the asteroid (33158) Rúfus was named after him.
Publications
- Strict bread , poems, retouched by Uwe Grüning and Richard Pietraß. With an afterword by Manfred Jähnichen, illustrated by Dušan Kállay (= verse time in Gollenstein ), Gollenstein, Blieskastel 1998, ISBN 3-930008-85-8 .
- Poems by Miroslav Válek, Milan Rúfus, Vojtech Mihálik, Manfred Jähnischen, edited and provided with an afterword by Manfred Jähnichen, adaptations from Slovak by Günther Deicke u. a. People and World, Berlin 1978, OCLC 5775496 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Milan Rúfus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Milan Rúfus on Literárne informačné centrum ( German )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Slovak Radio: http://www.rozhlas.sk/ January 12, 2009
- ↑ a b Slovak Press Agency : http://www.tasr.sk/ ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Poet Milan Rufus Dies in Bratislava
- ↑ APA-OTS: http://ots.at/
- ↑ http://www.litcentrum.sk/ Many authors were only tolerated by the regime
- ↑ http://www.litcentrum.sk/ ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Milan Rúfus
- ↑ Slovak Radio: http://www.rozhlas.sk/ December 11, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rúfus, Milan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Závažná Poruba , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 2009 |
| Place of death | Bratislava , Slovakia |