Ivan Cankar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ivan Cankar

Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist

Date of Birth: 10-May-1876

Place of Birth: Vrhnika, Osrednjeslovenska Statistical Region, Slovenia

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1918

Profession: writer, poet, politician, playwright, novelist, essayist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Ivan Cankar (pronounced ['tsa??ka?], pronunciation ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist.
Together with Oton Župancic, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature.
He is regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.