Miran Hladnik (born 19 December 1954) is a

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, specializing in quantitative analysis of Slovene rural stories and in Slovene historical novel.

Life and work

Miran Hladnik was born in

Jesenice Jesenice (, ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru'', vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 144.) is the tenth-largest town in Slovenia, located in the traditional province of Upper C ...

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(then part of the

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). He studied at the

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, where he graduated from

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and

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in 1978. In 1984/1985, Hladnik spent the academic year at

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, United States, as

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teaching assistant, teaching Slovene language at the university and also teaching the language in both

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and

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, to the local American Slovenes communities. In 1988, Hladnik obtained his PhD at the

with a thesis on Slovene rural story. The 26 million words Slovene rural stories

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is now part of FidaPLUS. In 1989/1990, Hladnik spent the academic year at

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, Germany, and again as

teaching assistant in 1994/1995 at

. From 1989, he has taught at the University of Ljubljana. In 1995 he started with the weekly e-news of Slavic languages and literature department, which was replaced by Slovlit, e-mailing-list based discussion forum in 1999. Hladnik has also adopted the web as his publishing platform and has been publishing his academic and teaching material under the

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license on

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and

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, while encouraging his students and his colleagues to the same through various Wikiprojects. He was awarded the Primož Trubar Prize for exceptional merit in preserving the Slovenian written heritage in 2017, for his effort in digitization of Slovene texts and their analysis using modern computer tools. In 2020 he obtained the Tone Pretnar Award, the honorary title Ambassador of Slovenian literature and language, for the founding and two decades of tireless moderation of Slovlit. As of 2020 Slovlit is the central Slovenian information medium for the literary and Slovenian studies.

Selected bibliography

* 1983.
Trivialna literatura
'. Ljubljana: DZS (Literarni leksikon, 21). 127 pp. * 1984–2008.

Alojz Gradnik Alojz Gradnik (August 3, 1882 – July 14, 1967) was a Slovenian poet and translation, translator. Life Gradnik was born in the village of Medana in the Gorizia Hills region, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is today in the Muni ...

, ''Zbrano delo'' (Collected works), 1–5. Co-edited with Tone Pretnar. Ljubljana: DZS, Maribor: Litera. * 1990.
Slovenska kmečka povest
'. lovene rural novel.Ljubljana: Prešernova družba. 205 pp. * 1991.
Povest
'. tory.Ljubljana: DZS (Literarni leksikon, 36). 93 pp. * 1993. ''Fuk je Kranjcem v kratek čas: Antologija slovenske pornografske poezije s pripovednim dodatkom''. 2nd, updated edition. Ljubljana: Mihelač. 203 pp. Notes 143–193. Co-edited with Marjan Dolgan. * 1994. (co-authored with

Toussaint Hočevar Toussaint Hočevar (25 June 1927 – 21 April 1987) or Toussaint Hocevar was a Slovenian American economic historian. Biography Hočevar was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He spent his child ...

''Slovene for Travelers / Slovenščina za popotnike''.
Kranj. 148 pp. (2nd edition.) * 1998. ''Novice Oddelka za slovanske književnosti na Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani ali Kronika ljubljanske slavistike 1996–1998''. Ljubljana: Odddelek za slovanske jezike in književnosti. 206 str. * 2002.

Vademekum za študente slovenske književnosti, zlasti za predmet Uvod v študij slovenske književnosti'' (6th, updated edition). Ljubljana: Faculty of Arts. 311 pp. * 2009
''Slovenski zgodovinski roman''.
lovene historical novel.Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba, Faculty of Arts. 356 pp. * 2016. ''Nova pisarija'' ew scripture: Textbook on writing in wikis.Wikibooks.

External links

Prof. Hladnik's Home Page

Slovene for Travelers
- Slovene language for travelers
The author's video lecture
on the videolectures website
An interview
at

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* Slovene literary classics on Slovene Wikisource

References

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