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1904–1981

A Slovenian poet, essayist, politician and public figure, a representative of the young Catholic literary movement, known as “the conscience of his era”, and a dissident. He was the first to speak publicly about secret mass executions in Slovenia after the end of the Second World War. His only collection of short stories, Strah in pogum (“Fear and Courage”, 1951), outpaced the general development of national prose.