Slovene literature, meaning the literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

 in the Slovene language, starts with Freising manuscripts

Freising manuscripts

The Freising Manuscripts are the first Latin-script continuous text in a Slavic language and the oldest document in Slovene.The monuments consisting of three texts in the oldest Slovene dialect were discovered bound into a Latin codex...

 around 1000. From first printed

Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....

 Slovene religious books in 1550 it is followed by these literary periods and notable authors:

Middle Ages

Folk poetry

1830-1849

1849-1899

Fin-de-siecle

This period encompasses 1899-1918.

1918-1941

1918-1930

1930-1941

1945-1990

Neo-realism

Intimism

Intimism was a poetic movement, the main themes of which were love, disappointment and suffering and the projection of poet's inner feelings onto nature. Its beginner is Ivan Minatti, who was followed by Lojze Krakar. The climax of Intimism was achieved in 1953 with a collection of poetry titled Poems of the Four , written by Janez Menart

Janez Menart

Janez Menart has been one of the most influential and most widely sold Slovenian poets, translators and screenwriters from the first post-war generation...

, Ciril Zlobec

Ciril Zlobec

Ciril Zlobec is a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician. He is best known for his poems and has published several volumes of poetry...

, Kajetan Kovič

Kajetan Kovič

Kajetan Kovič is a Slovene poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is best known for his poems and has written several bestselling children's books....

 and Tone Pavček

Tone Pavček

Tone Pavček was one of the most influential Slovene poets, translators and essayists from the first post-war generation. He published a number of collections of poetry, well received by readers and critics alike...

. An often neglected female counterpart to the four was Ada Škerl, whose subjective and pessimistic poetic sentiment was contrary to the post-war revolutionary demands in the People's Republic of Slovenia.

Modernism

Postmodernism

Post 1990