Milan Jesih (born April 14, 1950) is a Slovene

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, and

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. He was the president of the Slovene Writers' Association between 2009 and 2011. Jesih was born in

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in 1950. He studied

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at the

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and was a member of the avant-garde poetry group ''442''. He is known for his translations from English and Russian into Slovene (

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, and Bulgakov). He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1986 for his poetry collection ''Usta'' and for his plays, the Jenko Award and the Veronika Award for his poetry collection ''Jambi'' in 2001, and the Grand Prešeren Award in 2002 for his poetic opus.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
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Poetry collections

* ''Uran v urinu, gospodar!'' (1972) * ''Legende'' (1974) * ''Kobalt'' (1976) * ''Volfram'' (1980) * ''Usta'' (1985) * ''Soneti'' (1989) * ''Soneti drugi'' (1993) * ''Jambi'' (2000)

References

Slovenian poets Slovenian male poets Slovenian dramatists and playwrights Living people 1950 births Prešeren Award laureates Presidents of the Slovene Writers' Association Veronika Award laureates University of Ljubljana alumni Slovenian translators Writers from Ljubljana Theatre people from Ljubljana {{slovenia-writer-stub