11 Facts About Veno Taufer

Venceslav "Veno" Taufer was a Slovenian poet, essayist, translator and playwright.

Veno Taufer's father was a left liberal activist, and prominent member of the Sokol athletic movement.

Veno Taufer enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied comparative literature and graduated in history and literary theory in 1960.

Veno Taufer returned to Slovenia in 1970, and was employed by the Slovenian television service, where he worked as an editor in the cultural programme section.

Veno Taufer participated in the so-called May Declaration of 1989, in which a group of Slovenian intellectuals and public activists openly demanded full democratization of the politics of the nation, the introduction of a market economy, and the separation of Slovenia from Yugoslavia.

Veno Taufer was one of the co-founders of the Slovenian Democratic Union, one of the first anti-Communist political parties established in 1989.

In 2002 Veno Taufer received the Jan Smrek Prize, the highest literature prize given to foreign writers in Slovakia.

Veno Taufer was the father of film director Lara Simona Veno Taufer.

Veno Taufer began his public literary career in 1956 and 1957, when he published poems in the student journal Tribuna.

Veno Taufer published a collection titled Lead Stars in 1958.

Veno Taufer used extracts and collages in an accumulation of allusions to political reality, using parody in order to convey his message.