Milan Jesih

/Slovenia
Milan Jesih

(1950) is a Slovene poet, dramatist and literary translator. He studied comparative literature in Ljubljana, now he is a freelance writer. In the late 1960s he started out in the neo-avant-garde literary-performance group before growing disillusioned with ideological and aesthetic projects. A winner of all important national prizes (The Prešeren Prize, The Jenko Award and The Veronika Award), Jesih translated more than forty plays (Shakespeare, Chekhov, Bulgakov etc.). He has published following books of poems: Uran v urinu, gospodar! (Uranim in Urine, Lord!, 1972), Legende (Legends, 1974), Kobalt (Kobalt, 1976), Volfram (Volfram, 1980), Usta (Mouth, 1985), Soneti (Sonnets, 1989), Soneti drugi (New Sonnets, 1993), Jambi (Iambs, 2000), Grenki sadeži pravice (Bitter Fruit of Justice, 2004), Pesmi (Poems, 2005), Tako rekoč (So to speak, 2007), Mesto sto (2008). and his work has been translated into several European languages.

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