France Pibernik (September 2, 1928 – April 21, 2021) was a Slovene poet, author, essayist, and literary historian. Life Pibernik was born in Suhadole. He attended high school in Kranj and then enrolled in Slavic studies in Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1955. Until 1958 he taught at a middle school at Dobrovo in the Gorizia Hills, and after that at the high school in Kranj until his retirement in 1990. In the foreword to his book Janez Jalen, it is written about Pibernik that "as for many knowledgeable and intellectually diverse people, it is also true of him that, in the years when their work lives are no longer at the forefront, they are even more active and productive." Literary activity Initially, Pibernik's poetry was close to Neo-Romantic currents, and it later developed in the direction of Modernism. His first poetry collection, Bregovi ulice (1960), was followed by more volumes, among which his poetry collection Ajdova znamenja is the most notable. The most important part of Pibernik's works on literature are the volumes Med tradicijo in modernizmom (Between Tradition and Modernism), Med modernizmom in avantgardo (Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde), and Čas romana (The Era of the Novel). The first two present the author's correspondence with poets, and Čas romana with the prose writers. As a literary historian, Pibernik focused on work written during the Second World War and by Slovenes in exile, which was suppressed in Slovenia for political and ideological reasons. These include volumes on the poetry of France Balantič and Ivan Hribovšek, the anthology Jutro pozabljenih (Dawn of the Forgotten, 1991), the volume Temni zaliv Franceta Balantiča (The Dark Bay of France Balantič), his study Slovenski dunajski krog 1941–1945 (The Slovenian Vienna Circle, 1941–1945), and his biography of Karel Mauser. Poetry collections Bregovi ulice, 1960 () Ravnina, 1968 () Razlage, 1973 September, 1974 () Odzvok – pesmi v prozi, 1979 () Ajdova znamenja – izbor, 1993 () Svetloba timijan, 2000 () References 1928 births 2021 deaths Slovenian male poets Slovenian essayists Slovenian literary historians Ethnic Slovene people 20th-century poets People from the Municipality of Komenda