Jure Detela
Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer, and essayist.
Jure Detela | |
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| Born | 12 February 1951 Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) |
| Died | 17 January 1992 (aged 40) Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | Poet, writer and essayist |
| Nationality | Slovenian |
| Notable works | Pesmi, Haiku = Haiku |
| Notable awards | Jenko Award 1992 for Pesmi |
Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied art history at the University of Ljubljana. 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.
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