Ervin Fritz

{{Short description|Slovene poet, playwright and translator (born 1940)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|06|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Prebold, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)

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| occupation = Poet, playwright and translator

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| notableworks = Okruški sveta, Ogrlica iz rad

| awards = {{Awd|Prešeren Foundation Award|1979|for Okruški sveta}}{{Awd|Veronika Award|2011|for Ogrlica iz rad}}

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Ervin Fritz (born 27 June 1940) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He also writes poetry for children, radio plays, songs and librettos. He started publishing poetry in the mid-1960s.{{cite web |url=http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/pisatelji/483/detail.html |title=Slovene Writers' Association site |language=Slovenian |work=Slovene writers' portal |publisher=DSP Slovene Writers' Association |accessdate=16 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010073719/http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/pisatelji/483/detail.html# |archive-date=2011-10-10 |url-status=dead }}

Fritz was born in Prebold in 1940.{{cite book |author= Stanko Janež |editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=Matica srpska |language=sh |location= Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) |page=127 |isbn= |author-link= }} He studied Dramaturgy at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and worked as dramatourge at TV Ljubljana and Radio Slovenia.

In 1979 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Okruški sveta[http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/3_Nagrade_Presernovega_sklada_1962-2012.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients] {{dead link|date=January 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and in 2006 he received the Veronika Award for the poetry collection Ogrlica iz rad.[http://www.veronikini-veceri.si/veronikina-nagrada-2006 Veronika Award official site]