Ervin Fritz

Ervin Fritz (born 27 June 1940) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He also writes poetry for children, radio plays, songs and librettos. He started publishing poetry in the mid-1960s.

Fritz was born in Prebold in 1940. He studied Dramaturgy at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and worked as dramatourge at TV Ljubljana and Radio Slovenia.

In 1979 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Okruški sveta and in 2006 he received the Veronika Award for the poetry collection Ogrlica iz rad.

Selected works

Poetry collections

• Hvalnica življenja, 1967
• Dan danaÅ¡nji, 1972
• OkruÅ¡ki sveta, 1978
• Pesmi, 1980
• Minevanje, 1982
• Dejansko stanje: Pesmi in songi, 1985
• Slehernik, 1987
• Črna skrinjica, 1991
• Pravzaprav pesmi, 1995
• Favn:Pesmičice kosmatičice, 1998
• Tja čez:Soneti, 2002
• Pesmi: Zgodnja, zrela in pozna trgatev: jagodni izbor, 2002
• Ogrlica iz rad, 2005
• Drugačen svet, 2008
• Dolgi pohod, 2010

Poetry collections for children

• Dimnikar je črn grof, 1984
• Svet v naprstniku, 1992
• Mavrica Mavra, 1993
• Å tevila, 1993
• Nasprotja, 1993
• Moj dan, 1993
• Barve, 1994
• Liki, 1994
• Vrane, 2007

Prose for children

• Devet zgodb in deseta desetnica, 1996
• Sreča in nesreča, 2010

Plays

• Farse, 1973
• Mirakel o sveti Neži, 1977
• Kralj Malhus, 1988
• Lipicanija, 2000
• Rdeči kotiček, 2009
• Srčevje svetega Andreja, 2009
• Krpanova kobila, opera libretto 2010

Radio plays

• Komisija za samomore, 1984
• Stoli, 1984
• Kralj Malhus, 1986
• Karantena, 1988
• Ta veseli dan ali Cefizelj se ženi, 1990
• Zmaj v Postojnski jami, 1990
• Mirakel o sveti Neži, 1991
• Krompir ali Kregarca in ljudska oblast, 1993

Radio plays for children

• Zajček Peter, 1985
• Sin polka, 1986
• Grofič praÅ¡ič, 1991
• Gorski Å¡krat, 1991
• Črna baba in povodni mož, 1991
• Modra Barbica, 1992
• Legenda o Jezusu in svetem Petru, 1992
• Papagaj kralja Matjaža, 1994

References