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Janez Menart (izgovor ikone audio zvučnika (pomoć·info)) (29. rujna 1929. – 22. siječnja 2004.) bio je slovenski pjesnik, najpoznatiji po svojoj intimističkoj poeziji. Preveo je niz klasičnih francuskih i engleskih pjesničkih i dramskih djela na slovenski, uključujući Shakespeareove sonete.


Menart je rođen u Mariboru. Majka mu je bila kazališna glumica. Ubrzo se razboljela pa se obitelj vratila u Ljubljanu. Njegov otac je radio kao hitni medicinski tehničar i počinio je samoubojstvo kada je Janez imao sedam godina. Majka mu je umrla osam godina kasnije.

Zbog loših društvenih prilika Janez i njegova starija sestra živjeli su gotovo od početka školovanja u internatima. Janez je mogao upisati gimnaziju samo zato što je 1940. godine dobio jednu od četiri stipendije Dravske banovine. Završivši je pohađao je Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Ljubljani gdje je diplomirao slovensku filologiju i komparativnu književnost.

Nakon odsluženja vojnog roka najprije je bio čitatelj nakladnika, zatim redatelj i na kraju ravnatelj lutkarske sekcije Triglav filma. U to vrijeme se i oženio i dobio kćer. Od 1963. godine, kada je napustio film, zarađivao je pisanjem i prevođenjem.

Potom se zaposlio kao urednik dramskog uredništva na RTV Ljubljana. Slijedom političkih okolnosti kasnije je degradiran u redatelja, a posljednje tri godine radio je kao prevoditelj za aktualne potrebe. Godine 1979. odlučio je napustiti posao i zaposliti se kao voditelj programa knjižarskog kluba Svet knjige pri Mladinskoj knjizi. Tu je ostao do umirovljenja 1990. godine.

Preminuo je u Ljubljani od bolničke infekcije.

Raditi
Janez Menart bio je jedan od najpopularnijih slovenskih pjesnika u drugoj polovici 20. stoljeća. Preko četiri stotine njegovih pojedinačnih pjesama prevedeno je na oko 25 stranih jezika, a više od polovice tih prijevoda objavljeno je u samostalnim izdanjima. Više od stotinu njegovih pjesama i tekstova šansone uglazbljeno je, a neke od njih snimljene su i na kazetama i diskovima.

Menart je počeo ozbiljno pisati pjesme kada je imao 15 godina, a prve je objavio u posljednje dvije godine gimnazije. Postupno ih je objavljivao u sve većem broju književnih časopisa i putem radija. Njegova karijera istaknutog književnika započela je 1953. godine kada je u suradnji s Kajetanom Kovičem, Tonetom Pavčekom i Cirilom Zlobcem objavio zbirku Pjesme četvorice (Pesmi četirih). Poezija mu je tradicionalno ispovjedna, pripovijedanje realistično i satirično, a forma počiva na tradicionalnom metru s romantičnim slikama i svakodnevnom stvarnošću. Poznati su i njegovi epigrami.

Menart je izvornu poeziju nadopunio prevođenjem književnosti na stranom jeziku. Slovenci mu moraju zahvaliti, među ostalim, i na izvrsnim prijevodima Shakespeareovih soneta, Byronove, Burnsove i Prévertove poezije te Villonovih Sabranih djela. Također je prevodio engleske renesansne drame kao što su Volpone Jonsona i Doctor Faustus Christophera Marlowea.

Iako uglavnom poznat kao pjesnik i prevoditelj, Menart je napisao i scenarije za lutkarske i dokumentarne filmove te televizijske predstave. Ujedno je i prvi u Sloveniji objavio CD audioknjigu, a pjesme je u velikoj mjeri interpretirao sam.

U glazbi
Godine 1975. njegova pjesma `Domovina` (slovenski: Domovina) u prijevodu hrvatskog pjesnika Zvonimira Goloba korištena je kao tekst za pjesmu `Domovina` koju je otpjevao hrvatski rock i folk glazbenik Drago Mlinarec....



Janez Menart (pronunciation (help·info)) (29 September 1929 – 22 January 2004) was a Slovene poet, best known for his Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classic French and English poetry and drama works into Slovene, including Shakespeare`s sonnets.

Janez Menart
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Born
September 29, 1929
Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died
January 22, 2004 (aged 74)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation
poet, translator
Period
first post-war generation
Genre
lyrical, narrative, and satirical poetry
Literary movement
Intimism
Notable works
Poems of the Four,
First Autumn,
Newspaper Verse,
White Fairytale,
Traffic Lights of the Youth,
Under the Plague Spot,
Medieval Ballads,
translations of classical French and English poetry and plays
Notable awards
Award of the City of Ljubljana
1965 Translation of Shakespeare`s sonnets
Sovre Award
1975 Reworkings of poems by Robert Burns and Lord Byron
Župančič Award
1978 collection of poems Under the Plague Spot
Prešeren Award
1979 (declined) collections and translations of poetry
Sovre Award
1988 Collected works of François Villon
Spouse
Tonka Menart
Children
one daughter:
Barbara Menart Senica
Biography
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Menart was born in Maribor. His mother was a theatre actress. She soon fell ill, so the family moved back to Ljubljana. His father worked as an emergency medical technician and committed suicide when Janez was seven years old. His mother died eight years later.

Due to poor social circumstances Janez and his older sister lived almost from the beginning of schooling in the boarding schools. Janez was able to enter grammar school only because he won one of the four scholarships offered by Drava Banovina in 1940. Having finished it he attended the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana where he graduated in Slovene philology and in comparative literature studies.

After compulsory military service he was at first a publisher`s reader, then a stage director and finally a director of puppet section at Triglav film. In that time he also married and got a daughter. Since 1963, when he left film, he earned his money by writing and translation.

Then he employed himself as the editor of drama editorial board at RTV Ljubljana. Due to political circumstances he was later degraded to a stage director and in the final three years he worked as a translator for current needs. In 1979 he decided to leave his job and employ himself as a programme leader of the book sales club Svet knjige at Mladinska knjiga. He stayed there till his retirement in 1990.

He died in Ljubljana due to a hospital infection.

Work
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Janez Menart was one of the most popular Slovene poets in the second half of the 20th century. Over four hundred of his individuals poems have been translated to about 25 foreign languages and over half of these translations were published in independent editions. Over one hundred of his poems and chanson lyrics have been set to music, some of them have also been recorded on cassettes and discs.

Menart began seriously writing songs when he was 15 and had first of them published in the last two years of attending grammar school. He gradually published them in a continuously larger number of literary journals and by radio. His career of a prominent literate began in 1953 when he published the collection Poems of the Four (Pesmi štirih) in collaboration with Kajetan Kovič, Tone Pavček and Ciril Zlobec. His poetry is traditionally confessional, the narration realistic and satirical while the form rests on traditional meter with romantic images and everyday reality. Also well known are his epigrams.

Menart complemented original poetry by translating foreign language literature. Slovenes have to thank him for, among others, the excellent translations of Shakespeare`s Sonnets, Byron`s, Burns`s and Prévert`s poetry and Villon`s Collected Works. He also translated English Renaissance plays such as Volpone by Jonson and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

Although mainly known as a poet and translator, Menart also wrote scripts for puppet and documentary films and television plays. He was also the first in Slovenia to publish a CD audiobook, with his poems largely interpreted by him himself.