Josip Vandot

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Josip Vandot

Born	(1884-01-15)January 15, 1884 Kranjska Gora, Carniola, Austria-Hungary
Died	July 11, 1944(1944-07-11) (aged 60) Trnjanski Kuti, Independent State of Croatia
Occupation	Writer, poet
Nationality	Slovene

Josip Vandot (15 January 1884 – 11 June 1944) was a Slovene writer and poet who wrote mainly for young readers.

Biography

Vandot was born in Kranjska Gora in Upper Carniola, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Slovenia. Under the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he was employed as a railway official in Maribor, from where he was deported to Croatia by the occupying German forces in 1941. He was killed in the Allied bombing of Slavonski Brod in 1944.^[1]

Work

Vandot is most famous for the creation of the character Kekec, a brave and clever shepherd boy from the highlands of his home region, the Karavanke and Julian Alps. He wrote three books with Kekec as the main character:

Kekec na hudi poti ("Kekec on the Hard Path," 1918)
Kekec na volčji sledi ("Kekec on the Wolf Trail," 1922)
Kekec nad samotnim breznom ("Kekec Above the Lonely Abyss," 1924)

The Kekec books were adapted into three films about the character, though only the first was a direct adaptation of the first book:

Kekec (1951)^[2]
Srečno, Kekec (1963)^[3] ("Good Luck, Kekec") - the first Slovene colour film
Kekčeve ukane (1968) )^[4] ("Kekec's Wiles")

References

↑ Helga Glušič, Sto Slovenskih Pripovednikov (Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 1996) ISBN 961-6186-21-3
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- Kekec at the Internet Movie Database
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- Srečno, Kekec at the Internet Movie Database
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- Kekčeve ukane at the Internet Movie Database

External links

Media related to Josip Vandot at Wikimedia Commons

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Persondata
Name	Vandot, Josip
Alternative names
Short description	Slovenian writer
Date of birth	15 January 1884
Place of birth	Kranjska Gora
Date of death	11 July 1944
Place of death	Trnjavska Kuta, Croatia

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