Ivan Cankar
Novelist, Author
1876 – 1918
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Who was Ivan Cankar?
Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.
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- Born
- May 10, 1876
Vrhnika - Nationality
- Slovenia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Vienna
(1896 - )
- University of Vienna
- Died
- Dec 11, 1918
Ljubljana
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on July 23, 2013
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