Boris Pahor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Boris Pahor

Slovenian writer

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1913

Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia

Profession: writer, poet, politician

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Boris Pahor

  • Boris Pahor (pronunciation ) (born 26 August 1913) is a Slovene novelist best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in the pre-Second World War increasingly fascist Italy, as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor.
  • In his novel Necropolis he visits Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau.
  • Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen which was liberated on 15 April 1945. His success was not instant; openly expressing his disapproval of communism in Yugoslavia, he was not acknowledged and was probably intentionally overseen by his homeland until after Slovenia had gained its independence in 1991.
  • It was not until 2013 that his novel was first translated into English.
  • The first translation was titled Pilgrim Among the Shadows in 1995, and the second one Necropolis in 2010.
  • The masterpiece has been translated into several other European languages; French: Pèlerin parmi les ombres (1996), German: Nekropolis (2001, 2003), Catalan: Necròpolis (2004), Finnish: Nekropoli (2006), Italian: Necropoli (2008), Serbian: Necropola (2009), Spanish: Necrópolis (2010), Dutch: Nekropolis (2011), Croatian: Nekropola (2012), Portuguese: Necrópole (2013), and Esperanto: Pilgrimanto inter ombroj.Pahor is a prominent public figure in the Slovene minority in Italy, who were affected by Fascist Italianization.
  • Although a member of the Slovene Partisans, he opposed Titoist Communism as well.
  • He was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government and the Cross of Honour for Science and Art by the Austrian government, and was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • He refused the title of honorary citizen of the capital of Slovenia because he believed that the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–47) was not supported the way it ought to have been during the period of Fascist Italianization by right-wing or left-wing Slovenian political elites.
  • Pahor was married to the author Radoslava Premrl (1921–2009) and, at the age of 99, wrote a book dedicated to her.
  • He is, in addition to Slovene and Italian, fluent in French.
  • Following the death of Yisrael Kristal on 11 August 2017, he became the oldest living survivor of the Holocaust .

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