Drago Jančar (born 13 April, 1948) is a Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and public intellectual. Jančar is one of the most prolific and famous contemporary Slovene writers.
He was born in Maribor, an industrial center in what was then the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia. His father, originally from the Prekmurje region, was a former partisan. Jančar studied law in his home town. While a student, he became chief editor of the studen...
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Drago Jančar (born 13 April, 1948) is a Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and public intellectual. Jančar is one of the most prolific and famous contemporary Slovene writers.
He was born in Maribor, an industrial center in what was then the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia. His father, originally from the Prekmurje region, was a former partisan. Jančar studied law in his home town. While a student, he became chief editor of the student journal Katedra; he soon came in conflict with the Communist establishment because he published some articles critical of the ruling regime. He had to leave the journal. He soon found a job as an assistant at the Maribor daily newspaper Večer. In 1974 he was arrested by Yugoslav authorities for bringing to Yugoslavia a booklet entitled V Rogu ležimo pobiti (We Lie Killed in the Rog Forest), which he had bought in nearby Austria and lent to some friends. The booklet was a survivor's account of the Kočevski Rog massacres of the Slovene Home...
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