Josip Vandot
| Josip Vandot | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
15 January 1884 Kranjska Gora, Carniola, Austria-Hungary |
| Died |
11 July 1944 (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
External links
Media related to Josip Vandot at Wikimedia Commons
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