Ljubka Šorli

Ljubka Šorli (February 19, 1910 – April 30, 1993) was a Slovenian writer, poet, teacher and anti-fascist. She is known for her resistance against fascism, her poetic evocations of the Slovene Littoral landscape, her patriotic and religious verses, and her love poetry for her husband Lojze Bratuž, who was killed by the fascists.Ljubka Šorli – Women writers route https://www.womenwriters.eu/woman-writters/ljubka-sorli/ 2025-06-25 en-US Her World War I refugee childhood and World War II imprisonment and toture deeply influenced her literary work. In addition to writing poetry (including children's verse and short prose), she devoted decades to teaching in Slovene-language schools and preserving Slovene culture under Italian rule. Ljubka's legacy as a "poet of resistance, hope and love" (pesnica upora, upanja in ljubezni) is today recognized on both sides of the Slovene–Italian border.Ognjišče Radio 2013-04-27 Ljubka Šorli – žena, ki je uporno viharjem kljubovala https://radio.ognjisce.si/sl/141/slovenija/10614/ljubka-sorli-zena-ki-je-uporno-viharjem-kljubovala.htm 2025-06-25 Radio Ognjišče sl Quotes Skozi trpljenje nas žlahtni usoda.Ena misel je, en klic: Svoboda! Through suffering fate ennobles us. One thought, one call: Freedom! Her verse engraved (in Slovenian and Italian) on the memorial plaque at the Zdravščina (Poggio Terza Armata) camp near Gorizia, where she was imprisoned during WW II.Ljubkina pot: »Zdravščina – Poggio Terza Armata« (in Slovene). See also Radio Ognjišče, »Ljubka Šorli – žena, ki je uporno viharjem kljubovala« (accessed 2 Oct 2017). Moja pesem ne utiranovih, drznih si poti;stvarstvo božje v vseh odtenkihnjenim strunam govori.Ne potaplja se v globinein ne sili v visočine.Skozi srečo in gorjepesem moja eno išče:pot v človekovo svetišče,ki mu pravimosrce. My song does not hewnew, daring paths;God’s creation in all its shadesspeaks to its strings. It does not dive into the depthsnor force its way to heights.Through happiness and sorrowmy song seeks only one thing:the road to the human sanctuarythat we callthe heart. From the poem Moja pesem (My Song), in Izbrane pesmi (Gorizia: Goriška Mohorjeva družba, 1973).Gashi, Valbona: Med središčem in obrobjem: primerjava pesnic Lili Novy in Ljubke Šorli (2010), p. 14; cf. publisher pages for Izbrane pesmi: Goriška Mohorjeva družba and Mladika (2010 reissue info).https://www.kadmos.info/56mo-convegno-icm-igor-tuta/ Zakaj si toliko mi dal gorja,neskončni Bog, ki si dobrota sama?Kako sem bala se, da bo med namanastal prepad brez konca in meja. Why have you given me so much grief,infinite God, who are goodness itself?How I feared that there would open between usa chasm without end or bounds. From the poem Odmevi iz ječe (Echoes from Prison) she wrote in 1944 while imprisoned.Noviglas: »Rožni venec Ljubke Šorli« (10 July 2020), quoting the 1944 text and context.https://www.kadmos.info/56mo-convegno-icm-igor-tuta/ Ko bo svet pregnetla misel zdravain ljubezen stala bo najviše,vzklili bodo mir, svoboda, sprava. When sound thought works its way through the world,and love stands highest,peace, freedom and reconciliation will spring up. From the poem Razmišljanje (Reflection).Igor Tuta, “La multietnicità di confine… La poesia di Ljubka Šorli”, Kadmos Studia 2.2 (2022), p. 110, quoting these lines; PDF: kadmos.info. See also Radio Ognjišče’s page of selected lines: Misli Ljubke Šorli. Ni za sveto stvar težko umreti,a še mnogo, mnogo dal bi rad …V grob s seboj po sili hudobijeneizrabljen nesel bom zaklad. It is not hard to die for a sacred cause,yet I would gladly give so much more …By the force of malice I will carry to the gravean unspent treasure. From Tožba umirajočega (A Dying Man’s Lament), a poem about her husband's death by facists.Quotations as printed by Radio Ognjišče, Spominjamo se: “Tožba umirajočega” lines cited. Background on Šorli and selections also in dLib article record: Žežlina, Pesnici upora, upanja in ljubezni (2013). Notes External links Ljubka Šorli Ljubka Šorli — Ljubkina pot / Women Writers Route (in English) Slovenska biografija: “Šorli, Ljubka (1910–1993)” (in Slovene) Category:Poets from Slovenia Category:Educators from Slovenia Category:Women from Slovenia Category:Catholics from Slovenia Category:Women authors from Slovenia Category:Anti-fascists Category:1910 births Category:1995 deaths Category:Authors from Slovenia Category:Women born in the 1910s