Polonica Toneta Pretnarja

slovenian

2017

volume 62, issue 2/3

translation studies 

Slavistično društvo Slovenije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The article presents a portrait of Tone Pretnar, a Slovene Slavic and Polish philologist, primarily discussing his works in the field of Polish studies. Pretnar worked at universities in Ljubljana, Graz, Warsaw, Krakow and Katowice. His works consist of scholarly studies, literary and cultural commentaries, numerous translations and original poetry. His research focuses mostly on the comparative Slavic theory of verse and metre in translation, while his second area of interest was Polish-Slovene literary relations and their history. Pretnar was the greatest Polish literary translator of his generation in Slovenia, having translated over 100 Polish poets and almost 12,200 lines of poetry. With Bożena Ostromęcka-Frączak, he published the first ever Slovene-Polish dictionary (Ljubljana 1996). In light of his achievements, his name was included in the "Słownik badaczy literatury polskiej" ("The Dictionary of Polish Literature Researchers"; ed. J. Starnawski, vol. IV, Łódź 2001).

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