Ciril Bergles (1934–2013) was a Slovene poet, essayist and translator. Bergles studied Slovene and English at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a secondary school teacher.
He started publishing his poetry in 1984 with his collection Na poti v tišino (On the Path to Silence). He published numerous collections of poetry and was also known for his translations of poetry, mostly by Spanish and South American authors into Slovene. He translated poetry by Jorge Guillén, Alejandra Pizarnik, Fernando Pessoa, Luis Cernuda, Justo Jorge Padrón, Miguel de Unamuno, Constantine Cavafy, Rubén Darío, Ernesto Cardenal, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca … He also published an anthology of Basque poets in Slovene entitledBranil bom očetovo hišo (I Will Defend My Father’s House).
