Jure Detela

Jure Detela
Born (1951-02-12)12 February 1951
Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Died 17 January 1992(1992-01-17)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation Poet, writer and essayist
Notable works Pesmi, Haiku = Haiku
Notable awards Jenko Award
1992 for Pesmi

Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer and essayist.[1]

Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied History of Art at the University of Ljubljana. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-realist Manifesto) in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group called Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Apart from poetry he also published an autobiographic novel Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988.[2] He died in Ljubljana in 1992.

In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Jenko Award in 1995 for poetry.[3]

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