Frane MilĨinski - Je?˛ek
Frane MilĨinski - Je?˛ek (1914-88), actor, director, author of screen and radio plays (co-author of Kekec, Golden Lion for best youth film in 1952), singer, poet and writer, was one of the most prominent media personalities in Slovenia and without doubt Slovenia’s greatest humorist and satirist. He received numerous awards, including the Pre??eren award (the most prestigious Slovenian award in the arts) for lifetime achievement in 1975.
Throughout his life, Je?˛ek remained a man of and for the people. He was convinced that Ā?comedians are not the kind of people who have a flat on Mount Olympus, a weekend cottage on Parnassus, or the other way round. Our place is at the foot of the slope, where ordinary people are grinding their way through the pressures of everyday life. Weā??re not ashamed to be down here, nor to be comedians; on the contrary, as Shakespeare had it, weā??re ā??proud to be soldiersā?¯Ā?
In spite of Je?˛ekā??s great popularity, his work has become widely available only in the last ten years, with the release of cassettes, CDs and books of his short stories, poems and songs by Sanje.
