Miran Ogrin

Miran Ogrin
Born	1914 (1914)
Died	1985 (aged 70–71) Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation(s)	journalist and travelogue writer
Awards	Levstik Award 1974 for Od Kalifornije do Ognjene zemlje

Miran Ogrin (1914–1985) was a Slovene journalist who worked for the Nedeljski dnevnik weekly newspaper.^[1] He travelled extensively and published a number of travelogues. His books are packed with factual information, but have been criticized for lacking a personal note.^[2]

He won the Levstik Award in 1974 for his book on travelling the length of the Americas Od Kalifornije do Ognjene zemlje (From California to the Land of Fire).^[3]

Bibliography

Daleč od civilizacije: življenje plemen ob Amazonki (Far from Civilization: the Lives of Tribes along the Amazon), 1956
Srednji vzhod (The Middle East), 1961
Od Nila do Karatgene (From the Nile to Carthage), 1967
Širine sveta (The Breadths of the World), 1969
Na jugi sveta (At the South of the World), 1969
Od Kalifornije do Ognjene zemlje (From California to the Land of Fire), 1974
Vzhodni veter: od Urala do Kitajske in arabskih pustinj (An Eastern Wind: From the Urals to China and the Arab Deserts), 1978
Po stopinjah Aleksandra Velikega (Following the Footsteps of Alexander the Great), 1982

References

^ Dobnikar Šeruga, Romana (2014-07-15). "Popotnik nove dobe objavlja na spletu" [Traveller of the new age publishes online]. Delo (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2017-09-19.
^ Lah, Andrijan (1984). "Slovenski potopis" [The Slovene Travel Journal]. Jezik in slovstvo (in Slovenian). 29 (5): 163–171.
^ "Levstikova nagrada". Mladinska knjiga. Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2017-09-19.