Ivan Minatti (22 March 1924 – 9 June 2012) was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor.[1] He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets.[2] He is one of the best representatives of Slovene Intimism.[1]
Minatti was born in 1924 in Slovenske Konjice in northeastern Slovenia.[1] His family moved first to Slovenj Gradec and then to Ljubljana while he was still a child.[3] 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.[4] After the war, he studied Slavic studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1952.[5] He worked as an editor at Mladinska Knjiga publishers from 1947 until his retirement in 1984.[3] He became a regular member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1991.[1] He died at the age of 88[1] and was buried at Žale in Ljubljana.[6]
Minatti's poems, influenced by the horrors of the war, are lyrical and deal with modern-age resignation and melancholy.[1] 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.[5] 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.[5] 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.[6]
Minatti won the Prešeren Fund Award in 1964 for his poetry collection You Have to Love Somebody (Slovene: Nekoga moraš imeti rad).[7] 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.[8] In 1985, he won the Prešeren Award for his poetry collection I Listen to the Silence Inside Me (Prisluškujem tišini v sebi).[9]
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