Ivo Svetina (born 9 September 1948) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He has won numerous awards for his plays and poetry collections. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia. In 2014 he was elected President of the Slovene Writers' Association.
Svetina was born in Ljubljana in 1948. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and worked in numerous experimental theatre companies in the late 1960s and 1970s. He worked at RTV Slovenia and the Mladinsko Theatre.
He won the PreÃ
¡eren Foundation Award in 1988 for his poetry collection Peti rokopisi and in 2010 the Jenko Award for his poetry collection Sfingin hlev.
Selected works
Poetry collections
- Plovi na jagodi pupa magnolija do zlatih vladnih palaÃÂ (1971)
- Heliks in Tibija (1973)
- Botticelli (1975)
- VaÃ
¡a partijska ljubezen, OÃÂetje! Herojska smrt Ã
¾ivljenje (1976)
- Joni (1976)
- Dissertationes (1977)
- Bulbul (1982)
- Marija in Ã
¾ivali (1986)
- Péti rokopisi (1987)
- Knjiga oÃÂetove smrti: videnja, izreki 1989 (1990)
- Almagest (1991)
- Disciplina boleÃÂine: stance praznine (1993)
- Glasovi snega (1993)
- Disciplina boleÃÂine (1993)
- Zakoni vode in lesa: 1993-1995 (1997)
- Svitanice (1998)
- Svit (2000)
- Stihi, videnja, izreki (2001)
- Oblak in gora (2003)
- Pesmi nevednosti (2004)
- Lesbos (2005)
- Vrt pozabe (2005)
- Na obali oceana tovarna poezije (2008)
- Pes in Perzijci (2008)
- Stimmen slowenischer Lyrik 2 (2008)
- Sfingin hlev (2010)
Plays
- Lepotica in zver ali Kaj se je zgodilo z Danico D.? (1985)
- Biljard na Capriju/Ã
 eherezada (1989)
- Zgodba iz juÃ
¾nega gozda ali Kdo je ubil sonce (1989)
- Tibetanska knjiga mrtvih (1992)
- Kamen in zrno (1993)
- Vrtovi in golobica (1994)
- Zarika in sonÃÂnica (1995)
- Tako je umrl ZaratuÃ
¡tra (1996)
- Babilon (1996)
- Ojdip v Korintu (1999)
Children's Literature
- Aves, ptiÃÂji kralj (1990)
- Pravljica o jari kaÃÂi (1990)
- DeÃÂek in muha (1990)
- Kozel vrtnar (1993)
- Belin (1997)
References