Edvard Kocbek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edvard Kocbek

Slovenian writer

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1904

Place of Birth: Maribor, Podravska statistical region, Slovenia

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1981

Profession: writer, poet, politician, political commissar, partisan, translator, essayist, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Edvard Kocbek (pronunciation ) (27 September 1904 – 3 November 1981) was a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans.
He is considered as one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren.
His political role during and after World War II made him one of the most controversial figures in Slovenia in the 20th century.