(ANSA) - TRIESTE, FEB 4 - "One of the highest voices of the Second Postwar period" by the "ethical dimension of the work" perceived "through commitment and dedication: translations of Spanish poets, persecuted by Franco's regime, commitment in the almost twenty-five-year directorship of the Slovensko stalno gledališče, the Slovenian Stable Theater, clear and never ambiguous exposition of his own idea." This is the remembrance expressed here today by Senator Tatjana Rojc of Slovenian-speaking Italian poet Miroslav Kosuta who passed away two days ago shortly before his 90th birthday. Rojc recalled that he was "scarred by fascism, having a name imposed on him, Angelo Cossutta, in which he cannot recognize himself, wanted by the fascist cultural colonization that decides to proceed with the forced nationalization of the Slovenians of Venezia giulia and their cultural genocide. He also experiences, as a child, the trauma of the arrest and deportation of his father, an anti-fascist." A graduate in Comparative Literature, Kosuta "with his verse marked the entire post-World War II period," and "his poetry reflects the character, the soul of his city, Trieste, loved deeply, but suffered just as deeply for the long decades in which those who have lived there for 1,500 years continued to be branded by some still as 'foreigners,'" Rojc continued. Who sees in his poetry "the convergence of tradition and innovation, of Mediterraneanness and continentality, of playfulness and melancholy." For the senator, who was Kosuta's student, it is the verse that is the stylistic element "that makes him most recognizable." For Rojc, "an important part of his poetic production is related to children's literature, inseparable from his work," forging "lemmas as in a game" and recalling that Kosuta was "awarded the European Andersen Prize, an honor that only elected authors have" and, among others, in 2011 "the Republic of Slovenia's highest award in the field of culture, the Prešeren Prize," and in December "the Rilke International Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement." "To present him with that award was the last honor I had from him," Rojc concluded. (ANSA).