Josip Osti

Josip Osti

Josip Osti (b. 19 March 1945) is a Slovenian and Bosnian poet, prose writer and essayist, literary critic, anthologist and translator.

Osti was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo. He was the editor of the culture part of the student magazine "Naši dani", editor at the publishing house "Veselin Masleša", Secretary of the Literature Society of the City of Sarajevo and Director of the international literary festival Sarajevo Days of Poetry, Secretary of the Writers’ Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of the Association of Literary Translators of Bosnia and Herzegovina and proof-reader/corrector of the publishing house "Svijetlost".

Since 1990, Osti has been living in Slovenia, first in Ljubljana and currently in the village of Tomaj in the Kras region, where he works as a freelance writer.

Osti has published some twenty books of poetry (last four were written in Slovene), three books of prose, twelve books of essays, literary criticism and journalistic texts, as well as the book of conversations with Izet Sarajlić and the book of correspondence with Biljana Jovanović.

Osti has edited and translated ten anthologies of Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Slovenian poetry and prose, and translated more than eighty books and fifteen plays by Slovenian authors. Some thirty translations of his books in Slovene, Italian, Czech, English, Polish, Turkish, Bulgarian and Macedonian have been published so far.

Osti has won the Slovenian literary awards: "Zlata ptica" ("Golden Bird", 1993), "Veronikina nagrada" ("Veronika's Award", 1999), "Župančičeva nagrada" ("Župančič's Award", 2000) and "Jenkova nagrada" ("Jenko's Award", 2006), as well as the international literary award Vilenica (1994) and the special international poetry award "Scritture di Frontiera" (Trieste, 2005).

External links

* [http://blesok.com.mk/avtor.asp?lang=eng&id=894 Josip Osti in Blesok]
* [http://www.studentskazalozba.si/eng/avtor.asp?id_avtor=417 Josip Osti in Studentska založba]
* [http://www.e-books.com.mk/01poetry/osti/sodrzini.asp?lang=eng Barbara in barbar]
* [http://www.studentskazalozba.si/eng/knjiga.asp?id_knjiga=273 The Karst Narissus]
* [http://www.vecer.com/ruslica Rosa mystica]
* [http://www.ljudmila.org/litcenter/frankfurt/2006/10avtorjev.pdf 10 Authors from Slovenia]


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