Leta 1956 je na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti diplomiral iz primerjalne književnosti in leta 1969 doktoriral. Služboval je kot dramaturg v lutkovnem gledališču in gimnazijski profesor. Leta 1970 je…
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known…
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής; German: Sophokles, Russian: Софокл, French: Sophocle, Catalan: Sòfocles) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three …
Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless …
Greek mythology or Biblical stories base dramas, such as Electra (1937), of French writer Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux, who also wrote several novels. He fathered Jean-Pierre Giraudoux.
Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet, who has had books translated into most of the European languages. He lived in Ljubljana and occasionally teaches in the USA. His recent books in English are The Boo…
France Prešeren was a Slovene Romantic poet. He is considered the Slovene national poet. Although he was not a particularly prolific author, he inspired virtually all Slovene literature thereafter. Tod…
Milan Dekleva se je rodil v Ljubljani tržaškima Slovencema. Mama je bila pianistka, oče se je ljubiteljsko ukvarjal s slikarstvom, tako da je bila umetnost del družinskega življenja. Dekleva je tudi g…
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovene avant-garde poet. Since the 1960s, Kosovel has become a poetic icon, in the league of France Prešeren and Edvard Kocbek. He produced an impressive body of work of more than…
Ivo Svetina se je rodil 6. septembra 1948 v Ljubljani. Diplomiral je leta 1977 iz primerjalne književnosti in literarne teorije na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani. V poznih šestdesetih in zgodnjih se…
Matevž Kos (1966, Ljubljana) je literarni zgodovinar, kritik in esejist. V letih 1993–1998 je bil odgovorni urednik revije Literatura, od leta 1998 je urednik njenih knjižnih zbirk Novi pristopi in La…
Gregor Marija Strniša se je rodil Gustavu in Alojziji kot četrti otrok. Strniševa mati je bila sodna uradnica, oče Gustav Strniša (1887–1970) pesnik, mladinski pisatelj, uslužbenec na sodišču, igralec…
Carlota Suzanne Osten was a Swedish film director, stage director, and screenwriter. She won the award for Best Director at the 22nd Guldbagge Awards for the film The Mozart Brothers.
Velja za prvega slovenskega avantgardnega književnika, vzornika Srečka Kosovela in kasneje slovenskih modernistov. Pesniti je začel že zgodaj ter se kmalu oddaljil od klasičnih oblik poezije, s svojim…
