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Jure Potokar Jure Potokar i(A114348 works by)
Gender: Male
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11 90 y separately published work icon Breath Tim Winton , ( trans. Jure Potokar with title Vdih ) Slovenia : Zaloz̆ba Mis̆ , 2009 Z1457075 2008 single work novel (taught in 21 units) 'Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing.'
Source: Publisher's website
43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Jure Potokar with title V pričakovanju barbarov ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2005 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
12 43 y separately published work icon Death of a River Guide Richard Flanagan , ( trans. Jure Potokar with title Smrt rečnega vodnika ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2003 Z822275 1994 single work novel (taught in 5 units) 'Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. As the river rises his visions grow more turbulent, and in the flood of the past Aljaz discovers the soul history his country'. (Source: Trove)
27 11 y separately published work icon In the Heart of the Country J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Urban Vovk et. al. )agent with title V srcu dežele ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2001 6204795 1977 single work novel
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