(1876-05-10)10 May 1876 Vrhnika, Carniola, Austrian Empire
Died
11 December 1918(1918-12-11) (aged 42) Ljubljana, Kingdom of SHS
Occupation
Writer
essayist
playwright
poet
political activist
Education
University of Vienna
Genre
plays, short stories, short novels, essays
Literary movement
Symbolism, Modernism
Ivan Cankar (pronounced[ˈtsaːŋkaɾ], pronunciationⓘ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) 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 Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.[1]
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March 1879 – 18 June 1901) was a Slovene symbolist poet. Together with IvanCankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette, he was regarded as one of the beginners...
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after important Slovene poets and writers, following the example of the IvanCankar battalion. Slovene Partisans were the armed wing of the Liberation Front...
famous Slovenian writers, poems or artists, such as France Prešeren and IvanCankar. A neighbourhood named Murgle (in Southern Vič district) contains a street...
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after important Slovene poets and writers, following the example of the IvanCankar battalion. At the very beginning the Partisan forces were small, poorly...
In addition to the Prekmurje Society, two other Slovenian societies, IvanCankar and Slavček, also existed, and these three societies merged in 1937 to...
first generation of modernist Slovene authors (most notably the writer IvanCankar), who resorted to a more "pure" and simple language without excessive...
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