Tone Pavček se je rodil v tem kraju 29. septembra 1928. Tu je živel do svojega 16. leta. Prvi razred osnovne šole je obiskoval v domačem kraju, naslednje leto pa so ga prešolali v internat k nunam v Ljubljano. V Ljubljani je končal klasično gimnazijo, po maturi se je vpisal na pravno fakulteto, kjer je diplomiral leta 1954, vendar pravne službe nikoli ni opravljal.
Poleg pisateljevanja je bil Pavček zelo dejaven tudi na drugih področjih. Med letoma 1955 in 1957 je bil novinar pri Ljubljanskem dnevniku in Ljudski pravici, nato pa do leta 1972 novinar in urednik na RTV Slovenija. Med letoma 1963 in 1967 je bil ravnatelj Mladinskega gledališča v Ljubljani. Od leta 1972 do upokojitve leta 1990 je bil odgovorni urednik Cankarjeve založbe, od 1979 do 1983 je bil tudi predsednik Društva slovenskih pisateljev.
V letih 1986–1990 je bil poslanec slovenske skupščine in je na množičnem zborovanju na Kongresnem trgu v Ljubljani 8. maja leta 1989 prebral Majniško deklaracijo, prvi javni dokument z zahtevo po osamosvojitvi Republike Slovenije. Leta 1996 ga je UNICEF imenoval za enega izmed svojih ambasadorjev. Od leta 2001 je bil izredni, od 2007 pa redni član Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti (SAZU). Leta 2009 je bil odlikovan z Zlatim častnim znakom svobode RS.
V slovenski povojni književnosti se je uveljavil kot predstavnik intimizma. V njegovi poeziji izstopa predvsem ljubezen do rodne Dolenjske, velik del svojih del pa je posvetil tudi svojima otrokoma.
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Tone Pavček was born here on 29 September 1928. He attended the first grade of elementary school in nearby town of Mirna Peč, but was soon sent to a boarding school in Ljubljana. There he graduated from a classical high school, and went on to study law, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1954, although he never performed legal services.
In 1955 Pavček started working as journalist for the daily newspapers Ljubljanski dnevnik (Ljubljana Daily) and Ljudska pravica (People’s Justice). In 1958 he worked as a journalist and later a programme director at RTV Slovenia, a position he held until 1972.
From 1972 to his retirement in 1990, he was editor-in-chief of the Cankarjeva Založba press, a major publisher at the time in Slovenia.
For a period of four years, starting in 1963, he was also an art director for the Slovenian Youth Theatre in Ljubljana. He presided over the Slovene Writers' Association from 1979 to 1983.
From 1986 to 1990, Pavček was a member of the National Assembly. He was also a member of a working group of the Slovenian Writers Association and Slovenian Sociological Association that created the basis for the first Slovenian constitution, today referred to as ”The Writers' Constitution.” It was published in 1988 in the Journal for Critique of Science, for Imagination and New Anthropology. Pavček took part in a public rally on Congress Square on 8 May 1989, where he read the May Declaration, the first public document demanding Slovenia's independence from Yugoslavia.
In 1990 Pavček retired and retreated from public life. He remained a frequent guest at literary and cultural events, visiting libraries, schools, and other public institutions. In 1996 he became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and in 2001 a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was awarded the Golden Order for Merits of the Republic of Slovenia in 2009.
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Za uspešen vpis preko sporočila ali elektronske pošte sporočite naslednje (za vpis ni potrebno čakati na odgovor):
1. Kdo živi na naslovu Šentjurij 14?
2. Kolikšna je višinska razlika Poti Slakove in Pavčkove mladosti? (najdete na informativni tabli)
3. Pavček je dolenjska pomanjševalnica za palec. Na virtualni točki 1 (pri spomeniku) posnemite fotografijo, na kateri se bo videl spomenik in vaš "pavček" in jo pripnite k dnevniškemu vpisu.
Upamo, da ste preživeli prijeten dan med odkrivanjem lepot Dolenjske!
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To have your find approved (no need to wait for approval) send answers via message center or email to the following questions:
1. Who lives at the address Šentjurij 14?
2. Find "višinska razlika" on the info panel "The path of Slak's and Pavček's youth" and send us the number following.
3. Pavček is a diminutive word for thumb in Slovenian language. At the virtual stage 1 take a photo with your thumb and a monument in the background and attach it to the log.
Hope you've had a nice day discovering Dolenjska's beauties!
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