Kajetan Kovič

Cajetan Kovič (* 1931 in Maribor, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) is a Slovenian poet.

Life and work

Kovič received in 1956 his diploma from world literature and literary theory at the University of Ljubljana. From 1956-57 he worked as a journalist from 1958 to 1992 as a lecturer in Children's Literature and chief editor at the publishing house " Drzavna založba Slovenije in Ljubljana ". She then studied abroad in Paris (1961 /62) and Prague ( 1966) and participation in many international writers' meetings, including: Poetry International, Rotterdam 1996, round to the castle, Vienna 1999, Encontro international de poetas, Coimbra 2001 Biennial Central Europe Schiltigheim Strasbourg in 2001, Il cammino delle comete (Pistoia, 2004). He is a member of the Slovenian PEN and since 1991 a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has received numerous awards, among others, 1978 Prešeren Award, the highest literary award in Slovenia, 2002 CET ( Central European Time Price) in Budapest.

He translated Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George and Heym. He first worked as a journalist and in publishing.

Works

• "Golden ships", Plochingen 1969 ( poems)
• " Elderberry hours ", Graz, 1983 ( poems) 2005 Neuaufl. in the Kitab -Verlag Klagenfurt
• " Sibirski ciklus / Siberian cycle ", Graz, 1994 ( poems)
• "Summer", Klagenfurt 2000 ( poems)
• " The dragon tangle ", Hersching 1985, Klagenfurt 2003 ( children's book )
• " Kater Murr " Hersching 1985, Klagenfurt 2003 ( children's book )
• " My friend Piki Jakob ', Klagenfurt 1999 ( children's book )
• "Professor of the imagination ", trans. v. Andreas lives, Klagenfurt 1998.
• " Neither God nor beast ," Kitab, Klagenfurt 2005