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Edvard Kocbek

Died in 1981

Edvard Kocbek was born on 27 September 1904 in Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, in Styria, the son of the parish organist. After the seminary, he studied French in Ljubljana, then in Berlin and Lyon. A figure of the Christian left, he co-founded the Liberation Front in 1941 and was a minister in the spring of 1945. Removed from public life in 1952, he lived on translations, under surveillance. In 1975 he broke the silence about the execution of thousands of members of the Home Guard after the war; Heinrich Böll's intervention spared him prison. He died in Ljubljana on 3 November 1981.

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