Srečko Kosovel
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| Born |
March 18, 1904 Sežana, Gorizia and Gradisca, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia) |
| Died | May 26, 1926 (aged 22) Tomaj, Kingdom of Italy (now in Slovenia) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Literary movement | Impressionism, Expressionism, Constructivism |
| Notable works | Konsi |
Srečko Kosovel (
pronunciation ) (18 March 1904 – 26 May 1926) was a post–First World War Slovene poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political poet resisting forced Italianization of the Slovene areas annexed by Italy, an expressionist, a dadaist, a satirist, and as a voice of international socialism, using avant-garde constructivist forms. He is now considered a Slovenian poetic icon.
Most of Kosovel's works were published almost four decades after his early death at 22. In his homeland, Kosovel entered the 20th Century Slovene literary canon as a poet who produced an impressive body of work of more than 1000 drafts, among them 500 complete poems, with a quality regarded as unusually high for his age.
Srečko Kosovel was born as the youngest of five children to father Anton Kosovel, a Slovene teacher, who was not allowed to continue teaching in Slovene language after the Austrian Littoral was annexed by Italy with Treaty of Rapallo (1920), and mother Katarina (née Streš) who was 40 years old at the time of his birth and nurtured the artistic talents of their children. Kosovel's sister played the piano and one of his brothers was an aspiring writer, too. Born in Sežana, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kosovel lived in the nearby village of Tomaj until 1924.
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