You Have to Love Somebody (poem collection), The Pain of the Unexperienced (poem collection), I Listen to the Silence Inside Me (poem collection)
Notable awards
Prešeren Fund Award 1964 for the poem collection You Have to Love Somebody Sovre Award 1972 for the translations of Kočo Racin and Izet Sarajlić Prešeren Award 1985 for the poem collection I Listen to the Silence Inside Me Veronika Award 2009 for his life work
Ivan Minatti (22 March 1924 – 9 June 2012) was a Slovenepoet, translator, and editor.[1] He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets.[2] He is one of the best representatives of Slovene Intimism.[1]
Minatti's poems, influenced by the horrors of the war, are lyrical and deal with modern-age resignation and melancholy.[1] According to the poet Boris A. Novak, his work signified a radical break with collectivist postwar poetry and the start of personal poetry, making Minatti one of the breakthrough Slovene poets of the 20th century.[5] The poet and translator Veno Taufer characterised him as a rock-steady and, at the same time, of a soft heart, and ascribed his success to his expression of human as well as social distress in postwar Communist Slovenia.[5] Minatti is known for his references to nature. According to the poet Ciril Zlobec, he used nature as a source of deep symbols and metaphors for man and his life.[6]
Awards
Minatti won the Prešeren Fund Award in 1964 for his poetry collection You Have to Love Somebody (Slovene: Nekoga moraš imeti rad).[7] In 1972, he won the Sovre Award, bestowed for the best translations into Slovene, for his translations of lyrical poems by the Macedonian poet Kočo Racin and the Bosnian poet Izet Sarajlić.[8] In 1985, he won the Prešeren Award for his poetry collection I Listen to the Silence Inside Me (Prisluškujem tišini v sebi).[9]
Poetry collections
Off-Trail (S poti, 1947)
And the Spring Will Come (Pa bo pomlad prišla, 1955)
You Have to Love Somebody (Nekoga moraš imeti rad, 1963)
The Wind Sings (Veter poje, 1963)
The Pain of the Unexperienced (Bolečina nedoživetega, 1964)
Poems (Pesmi, 1971)
The Face (Obraz, 1972)
When I Am Silent and Good (Ko bom tih in dober, 1973)