Slovenian author and translator
Janez Gradišnik (22 September 1917 – 5 March 2009), was a Slovenian author and translator .[1]
Biography
He was born in Stražišče near Prevalje , present-day Slovenia , in what was then the Duchy of Carinthia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire . He studied at the University of Ljubljana . In the late 1930s and 1940s, he belonged to the Christian left intellectual circle of Edvard Kocbek . During World War II , he was arrested by the Nazi German authorities and expelled to Croatia . Between 1941 and 1945, he lived in exile in Bjelovar . In March 1945, the Ustaša (Croatian Fascists ) arrested him, and he spent the last months of the war imprisoned in Zagreb .
After the war, he shortly worked as the secretary of Edvard Kocbek, who was named Yugoslav Minister for Slovenia in Belgrade . After returning to Slovenia, he became the editor of the State Publishing House of Slovenia (Državna založba Slovenije ), but was forced to resign in 1952, when Kocbek was removed from public life. After that, Gradišnik dedicated himself mostly to translations. Together with Janko Moder , he was considered the foremost Slovene translator of the second half of the 20th century.
He translated from German , English , French , Russian , Serbian , and Croatian into Slovene . He translated works by Jules Verne , Vercors , Jack London , Ernest Hemingway , Norman Hunter , Sinclair Lewis , John Boynton Priestley , John Galsworthy , E.M. Forster , Robert Louis Stevenson , Dobrica Ćosić , André Malraux , Walter de la Mare , Thomas Mann , Mark Twain , Thornton Wilder , George Eliot , Graham Greene , Robert Musil , Thomas Wolfe , Rudyard Kipling , Aldous Huxley , Heinrich Böll , James Joyce , Laurence Sterne , Franz Kafka , Hermann Hesse , Mihail Afanasjevič Bulgakov , Henri Bergson , Albert Camus , Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and others.
He also compiled several dictionaries, most notably a Slovene-German one, and wrote short stories and literature for children.
In 2008 he received the Prešeren Award for his lifetime of work in literature, translation, writing, and linguistics.[2]
His son Branko Gradišnik is also a prominent translator, humorist, and short story writer.
He died on 5 March 2009 in Ljubljana .[3]
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References
1960s 1970s 1980s
1980: Danilo Benedičič
Evgen Car
Anton Demšar
Karpo Godina
Irena Grafenauer
Niko Grafenauer
Stane Jagodič
Norina Jankovič
Minu Kjuder
Rudolf Kotnik
Tone Partljič
Bogdan Reichenberg
Marjan Rožanc
Dubravka Sambolec
Mira Sardoč
Ati Soss
Marko Dekleva , Matjaž Garzarolli , Vojteh Ravnikar in Egon Vatovec
Janez Bizjak , Marko Cotič in Dušan Engelsberger
1981: Janez Albreht
Ljerka Belak
Alenka Gerlovič
Herman Gvardjančič
Janez Hočevar - Rifle
Andrej Inkret
Miša Jelnikar
Silvester Komel
Marko Kravos
Uroš Lajovic
Janez Matičič
Valentin Oman
Milan Pajk
Jože Privšek
Biba Bertok in Marjan Gašperšič
1982: Danilo Bezlaj
Janez Drozg
Bronislav Fajon
Branko Gombač
Branko Gradišnik
Lidija Kozlovič
Božo Rogelja
Barbara Rot in Božo Rot
Slovenski kvintet trobil (Anton Grčar , Stanko Arnold , Viljem Trampuš , Boris Šinigoj , Boris Gruden )
Vinko Tušek
1983: Ivo Ban
Janez Bermež
Vesna Gaberšček Ilgo
Andrej Kokot
Mojmir Lasan
Branko Madžarevič
Adriana Maraž
Pihalni kvintet RTV Ljubljana (Jože Pogačnik , Božo Rogelja , Alojz Zupan , Jože Falout , Jože Banič )
Milan Pogačnik
Peter Ternovšek
1984: Bine Matoh
Miloš Mlejnik
Boris A. Novak
Franc Novinc
Klavdij Palčič
Edvard Sršen
Tone Stojko
Lane Stranič
Aleš Valič
Marija Vidau
1985: Stanko Arnold
Jožica Avbelj
Olga Gracelj
Gustav Januš
Zmago Jeraj
Taras Kermauner
Miljenko Licul in Ranko Novak
Rajko Ranfl
Rudi Španzel
Dare Valič
1986: Mijo Basailović
Dragica Čadež
Karel Jerič
Milan Jesih
Silvij Kobal
Mirko Lipužič
Tomaž Medvešček
Marko Munih
Vlado Novak
Renato Quaglia
1987: Aleš Berger
Emerik Bernard
Alojz Ihan
Lojze Logar
Berta Meglič
Ivanka Mežan
Eduard Miler
Vladimir Pezdirc
Milko Šparemblek
Fauvel 86 (Lojze Lebič , Ksenija Hribar , Jernej Habjanič )
1988: Jani Bavčar
Peter Boštjančič
Silva Čušin
Peter Gabrijelčič
Zdenko Huzjan
Niko Košir
Edi Majaron
Uroš Rojko
Ivo Svetina
Lujo Vodopivec
1989: Emil Baronik
Milan Dekleva
Harald Draušbaher
Veronika Drolc
Maja Haderlap
Franci Slak
Maks Strmčnik
Marija Lucija Stupica
Vito Taufer
Franko Vecchiet
1990s 2000s 2010s
International National People Other