Jože Pahor (20 February 1888 – 1 September 1964) was a Slovene writer, playwright, editor and journalist.[1]

Jože Pahor
Born(1888-02-20)20 February 1888
Sežana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia)
Died1 September 1964(1964-09-01) (aged 76)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupationwriter, playwright, editor and journalist
Notable awardsLevstik Award
1951 for Hodil po zemlji sem naši

In 1951 he won the Levstik Award for his travel journal around Yugoslavia entitled Hodil po zemlji sem naši (I Walked Our Land).[2]

Bibliography

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Novels
  • Medvladje (Interregnum), 1923
  • Serenissima (Serenissima), in the journal Ljubljanski zvon 1928–1929, as a book in 1945
  • Matija Gorjan (Matija Gorjan), 1940
  • Pot desetega brata (The Path of the Tenth Brother), 1951
Plays
  • Viničarji (The Vinedressers), 1937, as a book 1951
  • Čas je dozorel (The Time Has Come), 1953
  • Semena v kamenju (Seeds in Stone), 1954
Youth literature
  • Otrok črnega rodu (A Child of a Dark Race), 1937
  • Tako je bilo trpljenje (That's What the Suffering Was Like), 1946
  • Hodil po zemlji sem naši (I Walked Our Land), 1951
  • Mladost na Krasu (Youth on the Karst Plateau), 1959

References

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  1. ^ Slovene Biographical Lexicon site
  2. ^ "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.