Jure Detela, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jure Detela

Poet, writer and essayist

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1951

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 17-Jan-1992

Profession: writer, poet, essayist

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer, and essayist.Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied art history at the University of Ljubljana.
In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealisticni manifest (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979, and he later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office).
Apart from poetry, he also published the autobiographical novel Pod strašnimi ocmi pontonskih mostov (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988.
He died in Ljubljana in 1992.