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Tomaž Šalamun

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Tomaž Šalamun (July 4, 1941 – December 27, 2014) was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central EuropeColm Tóibín (2004), Guardian and internationally acclaimed absurdist. [1]

50 relations: Absurdism, Aleš Šteger, Alojz Ihan, Art history, Arthur Rimbaud, Avant-garde, Blaise Cendrars, Central Europe, Colm Tóibín, Comte de Lautréamont, Dane Zajc, Edvard Kocbek, English language, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Independent State of Croatia, International Writing Program, Italianization, Ivan Maček, John Ashbery, Koper, Ljubljana, Martín López-Vega, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Nova revija (magazine), Ovid Prize, Prešeren Award, Ptuj, Pushcart Prize, Robert Desnos, Rumi, Samizdat, Slovene literature, Slovene minority in Italy (1920–47), Slovenia, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, T. S. Eliot, The Guardian, The Hour (newspaper), Titoism, Ugly Duckling Presse, United States, University of California, Berkeley, University of Iowa, University of Ljubljana, University of Pittsburgh, Uroš Zupan, Walt Whitman, Zagreb.

Absurdism

In philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any.

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Aleš Šteger

Aleš Šteger (born 31 May 1973) is a Slovene poet, writer, editor and literary critic.

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Alojz Ihan

Alojz Ihan (born 23 July 1961) is a doctor, specialist in medical microbiology and immunology from Slovenia.

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Art history

Art history is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts; that is genre, design, format, and style.

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Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet who is known for his influence on modern literature and arts, which prefigured surrealism.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Blaise Cendrars

Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is the region comprising the central part of Europe.

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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet.

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Comte de Lautréamont

Comte de Lautréamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay.

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Dane Zajc

Dane Zajc (26 October 1929 – 20 October 2005) was a Slovenian poet and playwright.

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Edvard Kocbek

Edvard Kocbek (27 September 1904 – 3 November 1981) was a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement.

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Frank O'Hara

Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet and art critic.

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Independent State of Croatia

The Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; Stato Indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II fascist puppet state of Germany and Italy.

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International Writing Program

The International Writing Program (IWP) is a writing residency for international artists in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Italianization

Italianization (Italianizzazione; talijanizacija; poitaljančevanje; Italianisierung; Ιταλοποίηση) is the spread of Italian culture, people, or language, either by integration or assimilation.

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Ivan Maček

Ivan Maček (28 May 1908 – 1 April 1993) was a Yugoslav Communist politician from Slovenia who served as the President of the People's Assembly of SR Slovenia from 1963 to 1967.

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John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet.

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Koper

Koper (Capodistria) is a city in southwestern Slovenia, with the other Slovenian coastal towns Ankaran, Izola, Piran, and Portorož, situated along the country's 47-kilometre coastline, in the Istrian Region, approximately five kilometres from its border with Italy.

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Ljubljana

Ljubljana (locally also; also known by other, historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia.

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Martín López-Vega

Martín López-Vega (born 1975 in Poo, Llanes, Asturias) is a Spanish and Asturian poet.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nova revija (magazine)

Nova revija (Slovene for New Review or New Journal) is a Slovene language literary magazine published in Slovenia.

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Ovid Prize

The Ovid Prize, established in 2002, is a literary prize awarded annually to an author from any country, in recognition of a body of work.

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Prešeren Award

The Prešeren Award (Prešernova nagrada), also called the Grand Prešeren Award (Velika Prešernova nagrada), is the highest decoration in the field of artistic and in the past also scientific creation in Slovenia.

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Ptuj

Ptuj (Pettau; Poetovium/Poetovio) is a town in northeastern Slovenia that is the seat of the Municipality of Ptuj.

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Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year.

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Robert Desnos

Robert Desnos (4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day.

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Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century PersianRitter, H.; Bausani, A. "ḎJ̲alāl al-Dīn Rūmī b. Bahāʾ al-Dīn Sulṭān al-ʿulamāʾ Walad b. Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad Ḵh̲aṭībī." Encyclopaedia of Islam.

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Samizdat

Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.

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Slovene literature

Slovene literature is the literature written in the Slovene language.

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Slovene minority in Italy (1920–47)

The Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947) was the indigenous Slovene population—approximately 327,000 out of a total population of 1.3Lipušček, U. (2012) Sacro egoismo: Slovenci v krempljih tajnega londonskega pakta 1915, Cankarjeva založba, Ljubljana.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene:, abbr.: RS), is a country in southern Central Europe, located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes.

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Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti (SAZU)) is the national academy of Slovenia, which encompasses science and the arts and brings together the top Slovene researchers and artists as members of the academy.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hour (newspaper)

The Norwalk Hour is a daily newspaper published in Norwalk, Connecticut by Hearst Media Services, Connecticut.

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Titoism

Titoism is described as the post-World War II policies and practices associated with Josip Broz Tito during the Cold War, characterized by an opposition to the Soviet Union.

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Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective based in Brooklyn, New York City that publishes poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

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University of Ljubljana

The University of Ljubljana (Univerza v Ljubljani, acronym: UL, Universitas Labacensis) is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia.

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University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Uroš Zupan

Uroš Zupan (born 25 August 1963) is a Slovene poet and translator.

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of Croatia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomaž_Šalamun

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