Žarko Petan

Zarko Petan ( born March 27, 1929 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) is a Slovenian writer.

Life

The author, director and journalist wrote a series of radio plays, novels and numerous aphorisms that made ​​him widely known about Slovenia addition; his works have been translated into several languages. In the communist era, he was detained in Belgrade - satirized in the life story over the edge of the world. In 1987 he published the novel The Birth of forgetting in which a court interpreter living in Germany for South Slavic languages ​​with its left behind in Ljubljana brother in letter contact occurs and the past reflected. He designs the panorama of a time when man was worth as much as it subordinated itself to the collective. With sarcasm, self-irony and subtle melancholy he draws up its subscribed accidents, unintentional humor and tragedy course of history.

After the fall of communism 1989 he was Director General of the Slovenian television and radio. In addition to its satirical Tito Biography The glorious life of Jozip B. Tito - which sees itself as a corrective to the Communist cheers biographies - found especially his published in several volumes of aphorisms with an empty head nods, it is easier and the world in a set of large appeal. 2003, the band appeared cautiously Laugh! .

Works

In German translation

  • With an empty head nods it easier. Satirical aphorisms. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, ¹ 1979, ² 1980 ³ 1985. Klagenfurt: Kitab, ⁴ 2004, ISBN 3-902005-35-1 ( for ⁴ 2004)
  • Sky in squares. Aphorisms and short prose. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1981, ISBN 3-222-11357-2
  • Before the Flood. Aphorisms. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1983, ISBN 3-222-11493-5
  • The birth of forgetting. Novel. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1987, ISBN 3-222-11740-3
  • Many men today were yesterday's comrades. New aphorisms. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1990, ISBN 3-222-11978-3
  • The glorious life of Jozip as Tito. A farce in prose. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1992, ISBN 3-222-12155-9
  • Past. Klagenfurt; Ljubljana; Vienna: Hermagoras, 1992, ISBN 3-85013-263-3
  • The world in a sentence. New aphorisms and small poetry. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1994, ISBN 3-222-12279-2
  • From tomorrow until yesterday. Collected aphorisms. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1997, ISBN 3-222-12483-3
  • The paths are shorter. Poems. Klagenfurt; Ljubljana; Vienna: Hermagoras, 1997, ISBN 3-85013-518-7
  • Laughter strictly prohibited. Encyclopedia of humor. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria, 1999, ISBN 3-222-12676-3
  • About the edge of the world. Life narrative. Vienna: Ed. Studio, 2000, ISBN 3-85308-050-2
  • Laugh carefully! Klagenfurt; Vienna: Kitab, 2003, ISBN 3-902005-10-6
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