Jure Detela

Who is Jure Detela?

Jure Detela was a Slovene poet, writer and essayist.

Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied History of Art at the University of Ljubljana. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group called Pisarna Aleph. Apart from poetry he also published an autobiographic novel Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov in 1988. He died in Ljubljana in 1992.

In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Jenko Award in 1995 for poetry.