Drago Jančar

Drago Jančar was born on 13 April 1948 in Maribor, where he studied law. Arrested in 1974 for having brought back from Austria and lent to friends a pamphlet on the massacres of Kočevski Rog, he was sentenced to one year for hostile propaganda and released after three months, then immediately called up for military service in the south of Serbia. A journalist at the daily Večer and a screenwriter, he joined the Slovenska matica in 1981, where he became an editor. Winner of the Prešeren Prize in 1993, of three Kresnik prizes and of the European Prize for Literature in 2011, he lives in Ljubljana.

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• TheatreVeliki briljantni valčekDrago Jančar · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature