Frane Milčinski
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1914|12|14}}
| birth_place = Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia)
| death_date = {{death date|df=y|1988|02|26}} (aged 73)
| death_place = Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
| occupation = poet, satirist, humorist, actor, children's writer and director
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Frane Milčinski (pen name Ježek; 14 December 1914 – 26 February 1988[https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvH8TtfyRhRbdV7ypm8G3 Frane Milčinski]. WorldCat. Retrieved 2 Nov 2024.) was a Slovene poet, satirist, humorist and comedian, actor, children's writer, and director. He is considered one of Slovenia's foremost 20th-century satirists and entertainers.
Life
Milčinski was born in Ljubljana in 1914 as the third child of the writer and judge Fran Milčinski. During World War II he was interned at the Gonars concentration camp.[http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/na-danasnji-dan/14-december-rodil-se-je-humorist-frane-milcinski-jezek/141174 14. december: Rodil se je humorist Frane Milčinski – Ježek], MMC RTV Slovenija, 2011 He was married to the writer and journalist Jana Milčinski.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sanje.si/knj_avtorji.php?avtorId=50 |title=Sanje Publishing House site |access-date=19 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101100024/http://www.sanje.si/knj_avtorji.php?avtorId=50 |archive-date=1 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Work
He worked in the theatre and radio from an early age.[http://www.mladina.si/97812/resnica-pod-nagobcnikom/ Resnica pod nagobčnikom (The Truth Under the Muzzle)] on the 90th anniversary of Ježek's birth, Mladina, 16 December 2004
Awards
Throughout his career, Milčinski won numerous awards. The 1951 film Kekec, for which he co-wrote the screenplay and theme song "Dobra volja je najbolja," won the first international award for a Slovene feature film when it won a Golden Lion in the children's film category at the Venice Film Festival in 1952.
Milčinski also won the Levstik Award in 1959 for his story Zvezdica Zaspanka (The Sleepy Little Star).{{Cite web |url=http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |title=The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site |access-date=3 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |archive-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead }} In 1975 he won the Grand Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement in radio, television, film, and literature.[http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/2_Presernove_nagrade1947-2012.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Legacy
The Ježek Award for creative achievement in radio and television is named after him; it has been bestowed annually since 1989 by Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization, Radiotelevizija Slovenija.[http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/drugo/jezkova-nagrada-sasu-hribarju/147821 Radiotelevizija Slovenija site]
Selected prose
- 13 in ena: humoreske Franeta Milčinskega – Ježka (13 and One: Humorous Stories by Frane Milčinski, a.k.a. Ježek, 1951)
- Zvezdica Zaspanka (The Sleepy Little Star, 1959)
- Legenda o birokratu (A Legend about a Bureaucrat, 1961)
- Desetnica in druge pravljice (The Tenth Daughter and Other Tales, 1964)
- Govoreči bankovec: antologija slovenske humoristične proze (The Talking Banknote: An Anthology of Slovene Humorous Prose, 1976)
- Preprosta ljubezen (Simple Love, 1987)
- Ta svet je pesmi vreden (This World Is Worthy of a Song, 1988)
- Humoreske (Humorous Stories, 1998)
- 13 + 8 humoresk (13 + 8 Humorous Stories, 2003)
Screenplays
- Kekec (1951)
- Svet na Kajžarju (1952)
- Vesna (1953)
- The Beginning Was Sin (1954)
- Ne čakaj na maj (1957)
- Dobri stari pianino (1959)
- Zvezdica Zaspanka (1965)
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Category:Slovenian children's writers
Category:Slovenian male film actors
Category:Slovenian radio personalities
Category:Prešeren Award laureates
Category:Levstik Award laureates
Category:Writers from Ljubljana
Category:20th-century Slovenian male actors