Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer, and essayist. Detela was born in

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and studied

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at the

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. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their ''Podrealistični manifest'' (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979, and he later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Apart from poetry, he also published the autobiographical novel ''Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov'' (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988. He died in Ljubljana in 1992.

Honors

In 1992 Detela was posthumously awarded the Jenko Award in 1995 for poetry. The ''32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts'' (2017) in Ljubljana takes its title ''Birth as Criterion'' from one of Detela's poems as translated by Raymond Miller.The 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts (2017) Ljubljana
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Poetry collections

* ''Zemljevidi'' (Maps), 1978 * ''Mah in srebro'' (Moss and Silver), 1983 * ''Pesmi'' (Poems), 1992 * ''Haiku = Haiku'', with Iztok Osojnik, 2004

Prose

* ''Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov'', (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges), novel, 1988 * ''Zapisi o umetnosti'' (Notes on Art), collection of essays, 2005

References

Slovenian male poets 1951 births 1992 deaths University of Ljubljana alumni Writers from Ljubljana 20th-century Slovenian poets {{slovenia-writer-stub