Janez Menart
| Janez Menart | |
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| Born |
September 29, 1929 Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | January 22, 2004 (aged 74) Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | poet, translator |
| Period | first post-war generation |
| Genre | lyrical, narrative, and satirical poetry |
| Literary movement | Intimism |
| Notable works |
Poems of the Four, First Autumn, Newspaper Verse, White Fairytale, Traffic Lights of the Youth, Under the Plague Spot, Medieval Ballads, translations of classical French and English poetry and plays |
| Notable awards |
Award of the City of Ljubljana 1965 Translation of Shakespeare's sonnets Sovre Award 1975 Reworkings of poems by Robert Burns and Lord Byron Župančič Award 1978 collection of poems Under the Plague Spot Prešeren Award 1979 (declined) collections and translations of poetry Sovre Award 1988 Collected works of François Villon |
| Spouse | Tonka Menart |
| Children | one daughter: Barbara Menart Senica |
Janez Menart (
pronunciation ) (29 September 1929 – 22 January 2004) was a Slovene poet, best known for his Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classic French and English poetry and drama works into Slovene, including Shakespeare's sonnets.
Menart was born in Maribor. His mother was a theatre actress. She soon fell ill, so the family moved back to Ljubljana. His father worked as an emergency medical technician and committed suicide when Janez was seven years old. His mother died eight years later.
Due to poor social circumstances Janez and his older sister lived almost from the beginning of schooling in the boarding schools. Janez was able to enter grammar school only because he won one of the four scholarships offered by Drava Banovina in 1940. Having finished it he attended the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana where he graduated in Slovene philology and in comparative literature studies.
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