Ciril Kosmač

Ciril Kosmač was born on 28 September 1910 in Slap ob Idrijci, the second of the four children of a peasant who led the church choir. Arrested by the Fascists on the day of his mother's funeral, then acquitted for lack of evidence, he crossed into Yugoslavia and settled in Ljubljana. A scholarship student in Paris in 1938, he then made his way to London and worked for British radio. After the war, he edited an illustrated weekly, joined the Academy in 1961 and presided over the Society of Slovene Writers from 1968 to 1972. He died in Ljubljana on 28 January 1980.

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• NovelA Day in SpringPomladni danCiril Kosmač · 1953Literature