Kajetan Kovič (21 October 1931 – 7 November 2014) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist.

[1] Kovič was born in Maribor in 1931 and spent his childhood in the small town of Poljčane and Hrastje–Mota near Radenci in eastern Slovenia.

He graduated from high school in Maribor and received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana in 1956.

[6] He established himself as a translator of German, French, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, and Russian poetry into Slovene.

[1] In 1993, he received the Jenko Award from the Slovene Writers' Association for his poetry collection Sibirski Cirkus ("Siberian Cycle").