Janez Stanič, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Janez Stanič

Slovenian journalist

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1937

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1996

Profession: writer, translator, journalist, linguist

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Janez Stanic (4 January 1937 – 28 October 1996) was a Slovene journalist and translator.
He was considered one of the best socio-political analysits of his generation and was often outspoken and critical of the Soviet regime.Stanic was born in Ljubljana in 1937.
He studied Slovene and Russian at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1961.
He worked for the newspaper Delo, first as their Moscow correspondent and later as an editor.
From 1975 he worked at the Slovene National Broadcaster and from 1991 as head of the Cankarjeva Založba publishing house.
He died in Ljubljana in 1996.He won the Levstik Award in 1968 for his book Onkraj Kremlja (The Other Side of the Kremlin).