Zora Tavčar

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Zora Tavčar
Born	(1928-10-02)2 October 1928 Loka pri Zidanem Mostu, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupation	Writer, essayist and translator
Notable work(s)	Veter v laseh, Velika maša

Zora Tavčar (born 2 October 1928) is a Slovene writer, essayist and translator, living in Villa Opicina in the Province of Trieste, Italy. She is married to a notable member of the Slovene minority in Italy, the writer Alojz Rebula.

Life

Tavčar was born in Loka pri Zidanem Mostu in 1928. She studied Comparative literature, Literary theory and Slovene language and literature at the University of Ljubljana. In 1963 she completed her doctorate at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

In 1951, she married the Slovene writer and playwright Alojz Rebula and moved to Villa Opicina in Italy. Until her retirement in 1988 she taught at various secondary schools with Slovene language as language of instruction in the Trieste region.^[1]

Work

She started off with writing poetry, but is better known for her short stories, essays and radio plays.^[2]

Published works

Veter v laseh (The Wind in My Hair), 1982
Ob kresu življenja (At the Bonfire of Life), 1989
Kroži, kroži galeb (Fly in Circles, Fly Seagul), 2008

References

↑ Dolenjski list 2 October 2008 80 let pisateljice Zore Tavčar Rebula The Writer Zora Tavčar Rebula 80th Birthday
↑ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovene). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 8 March 2012.

Persondata
Name	Tavcar, Zora
Alternative names
Short description	writer, essayist and translator
Date of birth	2 October 1928
Place of birth	Loka pri Zidanem Mostu, Slovenia
Date of death
Place of death

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