Vitomil Zupan

Vitomil Zupan was born on 18 January 1914 in Ljubljana. Before the war he was a sailor, a ship's stoker, a house painter in France, a ski instructor and a boxer. Interned in 1942 at the Gonars camp, he joined the partisans after the Italian capitulation of 1943. After the war, a show trial sentenced him to eighteen years in prison and forbade him to write; released in 1955, he took up the pen again, at first under a pseudonym. He received the Prešeren Prize twice and died in Ljubljana on 14 May 1987.

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• NovelMinuet for GuitarMenuet za kitaroVitomil Zupan · 1975Literature