Dušan Jelinčič

Dušan Jelinčič (born 1953) is a writer and a journalist from the community of

Alpine style mountaineer and the first mountaineer from Trieste who ever conquered an over-8000 m high Himalayan peak.^[2]

Life

He was born in an influential

militant anti-fascist organization TIGR, and a close personal friend of prominent authors such as Vladimir Bartol and Klement Jug

.

In his college years, he visited most of the world, traveling as backpacker and also lived for a year in a kibbutz in Israel. At the University of Trieste he graduated from history under the mentorship of Jože Pirjevec.^[1]

Work

Journalism, literature, and alpinism

He has worked in the

Friuli Venezia Giulia. Dušan Jelinčič has also written numerous essays, published in mostly Slovene literary journals, such as Sodobnost and Nova revija. In 2001, he wrote a play about a planned attack on Benito Mussolini by TIGR members, Upor obsojenih oz Kobarid 38' – Kronika atentata, that was put on stage a decade later by Slovene theatre in Trieste.^[1]

In his book 'Starry Nights' (Slovene: Zvezdnate noči), he wrote about his experiences in the 1986

ex aequo with Predrag Matvejević

.

Jelinčič's writings are part of the tradition of Slovene mountaineer

Slovenian Littoral, with authors as Henrik Tuma, Julius Kugy, Klement Jug, Tone Svetina, Igor Škamperle

, and Zorko Jelinčič, Dušan's father.

In 2003, he conquered the 8035 m high

Gasherbrum 2.^[3]