Ciril Zlobec

Ciril Zlobec
Born	4 July 1925(1925-07-04) Ponikve, Kingdom of Italy (now in Slovenia)
Occupation	poet, writer, journalist, translator, politician
Literary movement	Intimism
Notable work(s)	Pesmi štirih, Najina oaza, Glas
Notable award(s)	Prešeren Foundation Award 1965 for his poetry collection Najina oaza Prešeren Award 1982 for his poetry collection Glas

Ciril Zlobec (born 4 July 1925) is a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician. He is best known for his poems and has published several volumes of poetry.^[1] In 1990 he became a member of the Presidency of Slovenia at a critical time for Slovene independence.^[2]

Zlobec was born in 1925 in Ponikve in the Slovene Littoral which was under Italian administration at the time. He attended school in Gorizia and Koper and was expelled from school in 1941 for writing poetry in the then forbidden Slovene language. During the Second World War he was an activist for the Slovene Liberation Front and briefly joined the Partisans.^[3] After the war he completed his studies and graduated at the University of Ljubljana in 1953. He worked as a journalist and translator published numerous collections of poetry as well as two novels. In 1989 he was made a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. ^[4]

He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1965 for his poetry collection Najina oaza (Our Oasis)^[5] and the Grand Prešeren Award in 1982 for his poetry collection Glas (Voice)^[6]

Poetry collections

• Pesmi štirih (1953) co-authered with Janez Menart, Kajetan Kovič and Tone Pavček
• Pobeglo otroštvo (1957)
• Ljubezen (1958)
• Najina oaza (1964)
• Pesmi jeze in ljubezni (1968)
• Čudovita pustolovščina (1971)
• Dve žgoči sonci (1973)
• Vračanja na Kras (1974)
• Kras (1976)
• Pesmi (1979)
• Glas (1980)
• Pesmi ljubezni (1981)
• Beseda (1985)
• Nove pesmi (1985)
• Rod (1988)
• Moja kratka večnost (1990)
• Ljubezen dvoedina (1993)
• Stopnice k tebi (1995)
• Skoraj himne (1995)
• Ti – jaz – midva (1995)
• Mojih sedemdeset (1995)
• Čudež telovzetja (2004)

Novels

• Moška leta našega otroštva (1962)
• Moj brat svetnik (1970)
• Spomin kot zgodba, autobiographical novel, (1998)

References

1. ^ "Slovene Writers' Association site" (in Slovene). Slovene writers' portal. DSP Slovene Writers' Association. http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/pisatelji/189/detail.html. Retrieved 11 November 2011. 
2. ^ Slovenska Pomlad (Slovenian Spring) site, National Museum of Contemporary History
3. ^ European Resistance Archive site
4. ^ Ciril Zlobec on the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts site, (in Slovene)
5. ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipents
6. ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipents

Persondata
Name	Zlobec, Ciril
Alternative names
Short description	poet, writer, journalist, politician
Date of birth	4 July 1925
Place of birth	Ponikve, Kingdom of Italy (now in Slovenia)
Date of death
Place of death