Pavel Kunaver
| Pavel Kunaver | |
|---|---|
 Kunaver in the 1920s | |
| Born |
19 December 1889 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Died |
19 April 1988 (aged 98) Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | pedagogue, writer of popular science books |
| Notable awards |
Levstik Award 1981 for Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah |
Pavel Kunaver (19 December 1889 – 19 April 1988) was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy in Slovenia.[1][2]
He won the Levstik Award in 1981 for his book Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah (The Story and Truth About the Stars).[3]
Selected Published Works
- Na planine (Into the Hills), 1921
- Po gorah in dolinah (In the Hills and In the Valleys), 1923
- Zadnja pot kapitana Scotta (Captain Scott's Last Journey), 1926
- V prepadih (Amid Precipices), 1932
- Skozi led in sneg (Through Ice and Snow), 1944
- Sprehodi po nebu (Walks Across the Sky), 1944
- Pastir v Zlatorogovem kraljestvu (The Sheapherd in Goldhorn's Kingdom), 1945
- Potovanje po nebu (Travelling the Sky), 1951
- Nebo nad nami (The Sky Above Us), 1956
- Neizprosen sever (Relentless North), 1958
- Cerkniško jezero (lake Cerknica), 1961
- Brezna in vrhovi (Peaks and Abysses), 1974
- Kažipot po nebu (A Guide to the Sky), 1974
- Moje steze (My Paths), 1979
- Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah (The Story and Truth About the Stars), 1981
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