Edvard Kocbek

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Edvard Kocbek (27 September 1904, Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, Duchy of Styria, now Slovenia - 3 November 1981, Ljubljana) was a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, translator and political activist.

He was born in Austria-Hungary. After school he went to a Catholic seminar in Maribor for two years. He then went on to study at the University of Ljubljana. He started to write while at university. After trips to Berlin and France he published his first book, Zemlja (Soil, 1934). Due to a dispute over his 1951 book Strah in pogum (Fear and Courage), he was forcibly retired by Yugoslavia's communist regime in 1952 and placed under surveillance until the end of his life.

Political offices
Preceded by
Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
Drago Marušič		 Minister for Slovenia
March 7, 1945–May 5, 1945		 Succeeded by
Prime Minister of Slovenia
Boris Kidrič

[edit] Works

  • Zemlja ("Soil"; Ljubljana, 1934);
  • Groza ("Dread"; Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 1963);
  • Poročilo ("Report"; Maribor: Zalozba Obzorja, 1969);
  • Zbrane pesmi ("Selected Poems"; Ljubljana: Cankarjeva zalozba, 1977).
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