Background
Kovič was born in Maribor in 1931 and spent his childhood in the small town of Poljčane and Hrastje–Mota near Radenci in eastern Slovenia.
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Kovič was born in Maribor in 1931 and spent his childhood in the small town of Poljčane and Hrastje–Mota near Radenci in eastern Slovenia.
He graduated from high school in Maribor and received a bachelor"s degree in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana in 1956.
He died on 7 November 2014. Kovič started writing poetry in high school, and he published his first poetry in 1948. He was best known for his poems and he wrote several bestselling children"s books
Kovič also wrote political poetry, such as a poem in honor of Josip Broz Tito.
He established himself as a translator of German, French, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, and Russian poetry into Slovene. He also translated the poems that France Prešeren wrote in German into Slovene.
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Slovene Writers" Association]
In 1995 he was made a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.