Drago Jančar

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Drago Jančar (born 13 April 1948, Maribor) is a Slovenian novelist and dramatist.

Jančar was imprisoned by the Yugoslav authorities in 1974 for "hostile propaganda".

Drago Jancar, born in Maribor, Slovenia, 1948, is the best-known Slovenian writer at home and abroad. He studied law, worked as journalist, editor and free-lance writer. Under the Communist regime he was sentenced for "enemy propaganda". In 1985 he lived in the USA as a Fulbright fellow, in 1988 in Germany. As President of the Slovenian P.E.N. Center from 1987 to 1991 he contributed to the emergence of democracy in Slovenia and the rest of the former Yugoslavia. His novels and short stories have been translated and published in many European languages and in the USA, his dramas have also seen a number of foreign productions and are always considered the highlights of the Slovenian theatrical season. He received a number of literary awards, including the highest Slovenian literary award, the Preseren Prize, the European Short Story Award and the Herder Prize for literature. He lives in Ljubljana.