France Balantič

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France Balantič, (29 November 1921 - 24 November 1943), was a Slovene poet.

Balantič was born in Kamnik, in the Slovenian region of Upper Carniola in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Before World War Two he studied Slavic literature at the University of Ljubljana. In 1942 he was interned in Gonars concentration camp by the Fascist authorities of the Italian-occupied Province of Ljubljana. After his release he joined the voluntary anti-communist militia sponsored by the Italians and later the Slovenian Home Guard which collaborated with the Nazi German occupying forces. He was stationed as an officer at the Home Guard supply post in the village of Grahovo near Cerknica in 1943 when the post was attacked, sieged and burnt down by the Partisan resistance.

After World War Two all his poetry was removed from all public libraries in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The literary historian Anton Slodnjak mentioned Balantič in his Review of Slovene Literature in the 1950s and was fired from his post at the University of Ljubljana because of it. In 1966 a selection of Balantič's poems were printed under the title Muževna steblika, but after intervention by the Communist Party it was decided that the book should be withdrawn and the entire run was sent to be destroyed and recycled. His poems were published among the Slovene diaspora and only after the 1980s in Slovenia.

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