Jure Detela

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1951|02|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)

| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|01|17|1951|02|12|df=y}}

| death_place = Ljubljana, Slovenia

| occupation = Poet, writer and essayist

| nationality = Slovenian

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| notableworks = Pesmi, Haiku = Haiku

| awards = {{Awards|Jenko Award|1992|for Pesmi}}

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Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet, writer, and essayist.[https://archive.today/20120906165809/http://www.poetryinternational.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=5027 Poetry International Web Slovenian poetry: between elegy and serenity]

Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied art history at the University of Ljubljana. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979, and he later participated in the avantgarde group Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office). Apart from poetry, he also published the autobiographical novel Pod strašnimi očmi pontonskih mostov (Under the Scary Eyes of Pontoon Bridges) in 1988.[https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/en/node/24598 University of Vienna site, Literatur im Kontext] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121203065805/https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/en/node/24598 |date=3 December 2012 }}

He died in Ljubljana in 1992.