* 19.09.1939, Zell-Pfarre, Carinthia, Áustria vive em: Frießnitz (St. Jakob im Rosental), Carinthia, Áustria
Gustav Januš, poet, painter, translator and teacher of the Slovenian language, art, physics and chemistry, was born in 1939 in Carinthia. He lives in Frießnitz/Breznica and belongs to the Slowenian minority in Carinthia.
He published his poems in a number of literary magazines, and in 1978 his first collection, P(e)s(m)i (Poems/Dogs), was published by Državna založba in Ljubljana. In 1983, the same collection came out in Klagenfurt under the title Pesmi (Poems). That year also Suhrkamp-Verlag published his poems in the translation of Peter Handke, who later translated three more of his poetry collections.
In total, Januš has published ten books of poetry in Slovenian, German or in bi-lingual editions. For his work he has received many eminent prizes, including Petrarca Literature Award (1984), the Prešeren Foundation Prize (1986) and the Humbert-Fink-Literaturpreis (2018).
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