Srečko Kosovel was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets.
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The house in Tomaj where Kosovel spent his childhood![The Treaty of Rapallo and the Italianization of ethnic Slovene areas, which included a quarter of Slovene ethnic territory and approximately 327,000 out of a total population of 1.3[6] million Slovenes,[7] on the map of present-day Slovenia with its traditional regions' boundaries.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Treaty_of_Rapallo.png/500px-Treaty_of_Rapallo.png)
The Treaty of Rapallo and the Italianization of ethnic Slovene areas, which included a quarter of Slovene ethnic territory and approximately 327,000 out of a total population of 1.3[6] million Slovenes,[7] on the map of present-day Slovenia with its traditional regions' boundaries.
Manuscript of Kons 5, one of Kosovel's most famous late poems. It reads:Dung is gold
and gold is dung.Both = 00 = ∞∞ = 0AB < 1, 2, 3.Whoever has no souldoesn't need gold.Whoever has a souldoesn't need dung.EE-AWIn their orbit 3
Writers born in the 1900s 6
About this person
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political poet resisting forced Italianization of the Slovene areas annexed by Italy, an expressionist, a dadaist, a satirist, and as a voice of international socialism, using avant-garde constructivist forms. He is now considered a Slovenian poetic icon.
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Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1904 to 1926 · aged 22
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