Lili Novy

Lili Novy née Haumeder (24 December 1885 – 7 March 1958) was a Slovene poet and translator of poetry.

Gradually, under the influence of Alojz Gradnik, she began writing her own poetry in Slovene.

During her lifetime only one collection of her own poems was published: Temna vrata (Dark Door) (1941).

After spending an entire life on the move with a husband in the military, Lili Novy eventually settled in Ljubljana.

In the 1970s, the essayist Jože Javoršek published a monograph on Novy which led to a positive reassessment of her work.