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Novak A. Boris
BORIS A. NOVAK (born in 1953) is a Slovene poet, playwright, translator, and essayist. He obtained his PhD in comparative literature with the thesis The Reception of Romanic Poetic Forms in the Slovene Poetry and he teaches at the University of Ljubljana. In 1991 he was a visiting professor (Chair of Excellence in Humanities) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the U.S.A.
From seventies on Novak had been active in the movement for the democratization of the society and freedom of expression. As President of the Slovene PEN (1991 - 1996) and Chair of the Writers for Peace Committee of International PEN (1994 - 2000) Novak organized humanitarian help for refugees from the former Yugoslavia and writers from Sarajevo, one of the the biggest humanitarian efforts in the history of the world writers’ organization. In 2002 Novak was elected for the Vice-president of International PEN.
Novak’s poetry is translated into many languages, and books published in the U.S.A., France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. In Croatian two books are available: Sveta svjetlost (The Sacred Light – the selected poems, translated by Luko and Anamarija Paljetak, Jadranka Matić Zupančič and Željka Čorak, published by Durieux, 1996) and Majstor nesanice (The Master of Insomnia – translated by Luko Paljetak, published by Konzor, 1997). Novak translates French, ancient Provencal, as well as American, English and Irish poetry, and literature written in Dutch and in South Slav languages. So far he has published translations of Stéphane Mallarmé (1989), Paul Valéry (1992), Josip Osti (1992), Paul Verlaine (1996, 2000), Edmond Jabès (1996), Seamus Heaney (1997), and many poets in the anthologies of American (1986) and English poetry (1996). In 2001 he has published a huge anthology Modern French Poetry (more than 800 pages), and in 2003 the first anthology of Provencaltroubadours in Slovene and the translation of the novel The Difference by the Flemish writer Monika van Paemel (from Dutch).
Novak received many national and international awards for his work. In Slovenia he is a recipient of the Award of the Presheren’s Fund (1984) and Jenko’s Award for poetry (1995), Sovre’s award for his translation of Mallarmé’s poetry (1990), and theGolden Sign of the Scientific and Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences for his theoretical work (1998). International Board of Books for Young Readers (IBBY) has included Novak’s fairy tale The Little and the Big Moon on theHonour list of the best stories in 1998. The Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina has given him the international award Bosanski stećak for his literary opus in 2000.
So far he has published 60 books, including the following volumes of poems: Still-Life-in-Verses (Stihožitje), 1977; Daughter of Memory (Hči spomina), 1981; 1001 Verses (1001 stih), 1983; Coronation (Kronanje), 1984; Cataclysm (Stihija), 1991; The Master of Insomnia (Mojster nespečnosti), 1995; Alba, 1999, and Echo (Odmev), 2000, and Glowing (Žarenje), 2003. He has also published handbooks of poetic forms Forms of the World (Oblike sveta), 1991, and Forms of the Heart (Oblike srca), 1997.
Novak writes a lot for children; for them he has published six volumes of poems and two books of fairy tales. Besides 15 puppet and radio plays for children he has written several plays for adults, among them Soldiers of History (Vojaki zgodovine), 1988,House of Cards (Hiša iz kart), 1988, and Cassandra (2001).
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