{{Short description|Slovene poet, editor, and translator}} {{Infobox writer | name = Ivan Minatti | image = Ivan Minatti.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|3|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Slovenske Konjice, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now in Slovenia) | death_date ={{death date and age|2012|6|9|1924|3|22|df=y}} | death_place = Ljubljana, Slovenia | occupation = {{flatlist| * Poet * translator * editor }} | nationality = Slovenian | spouse = | children = | genre = | movement = Slovene Intimism | notableworks = {{nowrap|''You Have to Love Somebody''<br />(poem collection)}},<br />{{nowrap|''The Pain of the Unexperienced''<br />(poem collection)}},<br />{{nowrap|''I Listen to the Silence Inside Me''<br />(poem collection)}} | awards = {{Awards|award=Prešeren Fund Award|year=1964 for the poem collection|title={{nowrap|You Have to Love Somebody}}}}{{awards|award=Sovre Award |year=1972 for the translations of Kočo Racin and Izet Sarajlić}}{{Awards|award=Prešeren Award|year=1985 for the poem collection|title={{nowrap|I Listen to the Silence Inside Me}}}}{{Awards|award=Veronika Award |year=2009 for his life work}} | influences = | influenced = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Ivan Minatti''' (22&nbsp;March 1924&nbsp;–&nbsp;9&nbsp;June 2012) was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor.<ref name="STA2012-06-10">{{cite news |url=http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1767446 |title=Ivan Minatti, Poet, Has Died |publisher=Slovenian Press Agency |work=English Service: News |date=10 June 2012}}</ref> He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/pisatelji/1443/detail.html |title=Slovene Writers' Association site |language=sl |work=Slovene writers' portal |publisher=DSP Slovene Writers' Association |access-date=17 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216133145/http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/pisatelji/1443/detail.html |archive-date=16 February 2012 }}</ref> He is one of the best representatives of Slovene Intimism.<ref name="STA2012-06-10" />

==Life== Minatti was born in 1924 in Slovenske Konjice in northeastern Slovenia.<ref name="STA2012-06-10" /> His family moved first to Slovenj Gradec and then to Ljubljana while he was still a child.<ref name="RTV2012-06-09" /> He attended Gymnasium in Ljubljana, finished it in 1943, and then enrolled in medical studies, but postponed his education to join the Partisans in 1944.<ref name="HC1993">{{cite book |title=Reader's encyclopedia of Eastern European literature |page=[https://archive.org/details/readersencyclope00robe/page/267 267] |editor-first=Robert |editor-last=B. Pynsent |editor2-first=Sonia |editor2-last=I. Kanikova |isbn=9780062700070 |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1993 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/readersencyclope00robe/page/267 }}</ref> After the war, he studied Slavic studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1952.<ref name="24ur.com" /> He worked as an editor at Mladinska Knjiga publishers from 1947 until his retirement in 1984.<ref name="RTV2012-06-09">{{cite news |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/knjige/umrl-je-pesnik-in-prevajalec-ivan-minatti/284946 |title=Umrl je pesnik in prevajalec Ivan Minatti |trans-title=Ivan Minatti, Poet and Translator, Has Died |date=9 June 2012 |work=MMC RTV Slovenija |publisher=RTV Slovenija}}</ref> He became a regular member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1991.<ref name="STA2012-06-10" /> He died at the age of 88<ref name="STA2012-06-10" /> and was buried at Žale in Ljubljana.<ref name="Siol2012-06-15" />

==Work== Minatti's poems, influenced by the horrors of the war, are lyrical and deal with modern-age resignation and melancholy.<ref name="STA2012-06-10" /> 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.<ref name="24ur.com">{{cite news |url=http://24ur.com/novice/slovenija/po-minattijevi-smrti-bil-je-velik-slovenski-pesnik.html |title=Po Minattijevi smrti: bil je velik pesnik |trans-title=After Minatti's Death: He Was a Great Poet |work=24ur.com |publisher=PRO PLUS, d. o. o. |date=10 June 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref name="24ur.com" /> 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.<ref name="Siol2012-06-15">{{cite news |url=http://www.siol.net/kultura/novice/2012/06/minatti_je_poezijo_zivel_z_enako_intenzivnostjo_kot_zivljenje.aspx |title=Zlobec: Minatti je poezijo živel z enako intenzivnostjo kot življenje |language=sl |trans-title=Zlobec: Minatti Lived Poetry with the Same Intensivity as Life |date=15 June 2012 |newspaper=Planet Siol.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222032405/http://www.siol.net/kultura/novice/2012/06/minatti_je_poezijo_zivel_z_enako_intenzivnostjo_kot_zivljenje.aspx |archive-date=22 February 2013 }}</ref>

==Awards== Minatti won the Prešeren Fund Award in 1964 for his poetry collection ''You Have to Love Somebody'' ({{langx|sl|Nekoga moraš imeti rad}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/3_Nagrade_Presernovega_sklada_1962-2012.pdf |title=Nagrade Prešernovega sklada |trans-title=Prešeren Fund Awards |publisher=Slovenian Ministry of Culture |access-date=10 June 2012 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dskp-drustvo.si/sovretova_nagrada.php |title=Sovretovi Nagrajenci |language=sl |trans-title=Sovre Laureates |access-date=10 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425021046/http://www.dskp-drustvo.si/sovretova_nagrada.php |archive-date=25 April 2012 }}</ref> In 1985, he won the Prešeren Award for his poetry collection ''I Listen to the Silence Inside Me'' ({{lang|sl|Prisluškujem tišini v sebi}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/2_Presernove_nagrade1947-2012.pdf |title=Prešernove nagrade |trans-title=Prešeren Awards |publisher=Slovenian Ministry of Culture |access-date=10 June 2012 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==Poetry collections==

* ''Off-Trail'' ({{lang|sl|S poti}}, 1947) * ''And the Spring Will Come'' ({{lang|sl|Pa bo pomlad prišla}}, 1955) * ''You Have to Love Somebody'' ({{lang|sl|Nekoga moraš imeti rad}}, 1963) * ''The Wind Sings'' ({{lang|sl|Veter poje}}, 1963) * ''The Pain of the Unexperienced'' ({{lang|sl|Bolečina nedoživetega}}, 1964) * ''Poems'' ({{lang|sl|Pesmi}}, 1971) * ''The Face'' ({{lang|sl|Obraz}}, 1972) * ''When I Am Silent and Good'' ({{lang|sl|Ko bom tih in dober}}, 1973) * ''The Poems'' ({{lang|sl|Pesmi}}, 1977) - with Janez Menart and Lojze Krakar * ''I Eavesdrop on the Silence Within Me'' ({{lang|sl|Prisluškujem tišini v sebi}}, 1984) * ''Behind the Closed Eyelids: Chosen Poems'' ({{lang|sl|Pod zaprtimi vekami, izbrane pesmi}}, 1999) * ''Minatti – Chosen Lyrical Poetry'' ({{lang|sl|Minatti – izbrana lirika}}, 2004)

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