Ivan Bratko (publisher)
Ivan Bratko | |
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Born | Celje, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia) | 15 February 1914
Died | 23 March 2001 Ljubljana, Slovenia | (aged 87)
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Notable works | Teleskop |
Notable awards | Levstik Award 1955 for Teleskop |
Ivan Bratko (15 February 1914 – 23 March 2001) was a Slovene writer and publisher, partisan and officer.
Bratko was born in Celje in 1914.[1] He graduated in law from the University of Ljubljana[1] in 1941. He was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 1933 and published numerous articles and columns on socio-economic matters even before the Second World War. He was interred at Gonars concentration camp from where he escaped and joined the partisan.[1] His escape from Gonars was also the inspiration for his best known book Teleskop (Telescope), for which he won the Levstik Award in 1954.[2] From 1952 until his retirement in 1981 he worked as head of the DZS Publishing House.[3]
He died in Ljubljana in 2001.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- S poti po evropskem zapadu (On the Road in Western Europe), 1950
- Teleskop (Telescope), novel, 1954
- Pomlad v februarju (Spring in February), novel, 1957
- Vroči asfalt Evrope (The Hot Asphalt of Europe), short stories, 1962
- Rakete in sekvoje (Rockets and Sequoias), travelogue, 1965
- Dekletov dnevnik (A Girl's Diary), 1969
- Čas knjige (The Time of the Book), 1972
- Okrogla miza (Round Table), 1977
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Stefan Barbarič (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 50.
- ^ "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ DZS Publishing House site
- ^ Slovenian Press Agency, Preminil pisatelj in založnik Ivan Bratko (Writer and Publisher Ivan Bratko dies), 26 March 2001