Ivan Cankar
1876
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1918
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: poetry, short novel, sketch story, novella
country of citizenship: Austria-Hungary
languages spoken, written or signed: Slovene
occupation: poet, writer, novelist, politician, essayist, playwright, prosaist
influenced by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ivan Cankar (pronounced [ˈtsaːŋkaɾ], ) (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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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