Vitomil Zupan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vitomil Zupan

Slovenian writer

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1914

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 14-May-1987

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, journalist, literary, essayist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Vitomil Zupan

  • Vitomil Zupan (18 January 1914 – 14 May 1987) was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor.
  • Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller.
  • He is best known for Menuet za kitaro (A Minuet for Guitar, 1975), describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans.
  • In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under his pseudonym Langus.
  • He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers.

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