Indian Poetry in Slovenian Cultural Space

Abstract

The article attempts to analyse how known Indian poetry is in Slovenian cultural space, which authors have been translated and what research has been done into it. The article finds that Indian poetry is despite differences between Slovenian and Indian cultural spaces relatively well known. The most widely read poet is Rabindranath Tagore, who strongly influenced Slovenian modernist poet Srečko Kosovel. Publications of Indian poetry are mostly limited to anthologies