France Pibernik


France Pibernik was a Slovene poet, author, essayist, and literary historian.

Life

Pibernik was born in Suhadole. He attended high school in Kranj and then enrolled in Slavic studies in Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1955. Until 1958 he taught at a middle school at Dobrovo in the Gorizia Hills, and after that at the high school in Kranj until his retirement in 1990. In the foreword to his book Janez Jalen, it is written about Pibernik that "as for many knowledgeable and intellectually diverse people, it is also true of him that, in the years when their work lives are no longer at the forefront, they are even more active and productive."

Literary activity

Initially, Pibernik's poetry was close to Neo-Romantic currents, and it later developed in the direction of Modernism. His first poetry collection, Bregovi ulice, was followed by more volumes, among which his poetry collection Ajdova znamenja is the most notable. The most important part of Pibernik's works on literature are the volumes Med tradicijo in modernizmom, Med modernizmom in avantgardo, and Čas romana. The first two present the author's correspondence with poets, and Čas romana with the prose writers. As a literary historian, Pibernik focused on work written during the Second World War and by Slovenes in exile, which was suppressed in Slovenia for political and ideological reasons. These include volumes on the poetry of France Balantič and Ivan Hribovšek, the anthology Jutro pozabljenih, the volume Temni zaliv Franceta Balantiča, his study Slovenski dunajski krog 1941–1945, and his biography of Karel Mauser.

Poetry collections

Bregovi ulice, 1960 Ravnina, 1968 Razlage, 1973September, 1974 Odzvok – pesmi v prozi, 1979 Ajdova znamenja – izbor, 1993 Svetloba timijan, 2000

Literary history

Med tradicijo in modernizmom: pričevanja o sodobni poeziji, 1978 Med modernizmom in avantgardo: pričevanja o sodobni poeziji, 1981 Čas romana: pogovori s slovenskimi pisatelji, 1983 Temni zaliv Franceta Balantiča, 1989, 1990 Slovenski dunajski krog 1941–1945, 1991 Razmerja v sodobni slovenski dramatiki: pogovori, dopisovanja, razmišljanja, 1992 Karel Mauser: življenje in delo, 1993
  • Anton Vodnik, Zbrano delo, 1993 Ogledala sanj Jožeta Udoviča: dokumenti, pričevanja, komentarji, 1996 Slovenska duhovna pesem: od Prešerna do danes, 2001 Beseda čez ocean: antologija slovenske zdomske pozije, 2002 Janez Jalen: življenjska in pisateljska pot v dokumentih, pričevanjih in razlagah, 2003 Začudene oči otroštva, 2008 France Balantič: življenjska in pesniška pot 1921–1943: literarna usoda po letu 1945, 2008 Jože Udovič: Udovičeva poezija med realnostjo in vizijo z dvema proznima intermezzoma, 2008
  • Ivan Hribovšek, Zbrano delo, 2010
  • Vladimir Truhlar, Zbrano delo, 2011 Vladimir Truhlar, 2016 Anton Vodnik, 2012
  • France Balantič, Zbrano delo, 2008 Severin Šali: popotnik, zaljubljen v življenje, 2019

Research on suppressed writers

In his last decade, Pibernik devoted himself mainly to researching the lives and works of writers that were politically banned and suppressed under the communist regime in Slovenia. He published many books on this topic, starting with an anthology:Jutro pozabljenih: antologija padlih, pobitih, prepovedanih, zamolčanih, pozabljenih, 1991
  • France Balantič, Tihi glas piščali, 1991
  • Ivan Hribovšek, Himna večeru: izbrane pesmi, 1993
  • France Kunstelj, Luč na mojem pragu: izbrane črtice in novele, 1994
  • Ludve Potokar, Onstran samote, 1995
  • Tone Polda, Moja Krnica, 1996
  • Pozni november za pesnika: biografska pripoved : France Balantič, 29. november 1921 – 24. november 1943, 2016
  • Dohojene stopinje: pogovori in dokumenti: 2000–2018, 2019
  • Alojz Rebula: 1924-2018: dokumentarna monografija , 2019
  • Mož neuklonljivih ramen: pogovori s Francetom Pibernikom , 2021

Recognitions and awards