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Erwin Köstler
Erwin Köstler was born in Trier in 1964 and is an Austrian translator of Slovenian literature and freelance literary scholar. He studied medicine and Slovenian studies at the University of Vienna. Even as a student, he worked as a translator and freelance scholar, and became particularly well known for his translations of the work of Ivan Cankar.
Among his many other translations and editorships of individual authors, we would like to highlight the first complete and annotated translation of Srečko Kosovel's Integrali in 1999, the collected prose of Slavko Grum in German in 2006, the book series Slovenian Library, Franjo Frančič, Sebastijan Pregelj, Andrej E. Skubic and, while they were still ostracised by the official literary institutions, Breda Smolnikar.
Slovenian Classics
- series 16ers
- hand-stitched
- 48 pages
- selected by Erwin Köstler
- a volume from our
- BOX—the wild Slovens
- at Slovenia as Guest of Honour 2023
978-3-86638-403-3
»Slovenian Classics« we call nine authors—the little volume of our 16-volume series is intended for browsing and as a stimulus for those readers who may not yet have made any acquaintance with "classics" of Slovenian literature.
It is completely unsystematically assembled and, because it is based exclusively on existing translations, highly incomplete. But it does tell us something about a literature that since the Reformation, whether in Slovene or German, has championed its cause and prepared the ground for further development.
Until the 1980s, attempts to make Slovene texts known nationwide were still limited to the initiative of individuals, and they almost all remained marginal and without more lasting effect.
Much has happened since then. Today, Slovenian literature no longer has to prove its right to exist; its great wealth of forms and literary approaches is visible to everyone in a multitude of translations.
Contents
Primož Trubar: Proverb
Johann Weichard Valvasor: The honour of the Duchy Krain
Urban Jarnik: Hints about Carinthia's Germanisation
France Prešeren: About our beautiful Vida
Ivan Cankar: Scetches
Zofka Kveder: Their Lifes
Ivan Pregelj: Plebanus Joannes
rečko Kosovel: Integrals
Vitomil Zupan: Journey to the End of Spring
