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Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.
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culture · Slovene writer and political activist (1876–1918) · poet · writer · novelist · politician · essayist · playwright · prose writer · also Ivan Cankar, Cankar
Born 10 May 1876 · Died 11 December 1918 · Q15809
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2019· 2 entries
By the Slovenian PEN, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Ljubljana
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1937· 1 entry
The first integral collection of Cankar's work was published, edited and annotated by his cousin and conservative literary historian and critic Izidor Cankar
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1936· 1 entry
His grave was moved to the Žale cemetery in Ljubljana, where he was buried next to his youth friends and fellow authors Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn
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1920· 1 entry
Is a magically realistic and allegorical depiction of the horrors of World War I
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1918· 1 entry
Died 1918-12-11.
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1917· 1 entry
Was drafted in the Austro-Hungarian Army, but was demobilized due to poor health
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1914· 1 entry
Was again imprisoned in Ljubljana Castle for supposed pro-Serbian attitudes, but was soon released
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1909· 3 entries
The party favoured a gradual unification of Slovene culture and language with the Serbo-Croatian ones in order to create a common Yugoslav cultural nation
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Began travelling throughout the Slovene Lands, delivering lectures and conferences
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Left Vienna and moved to Sarajevo in Bosnia and Hercegovina, where his brother Karlo worked as a priest
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1907· 3 entries
Cankar had started to publish numerous essays explaining his political and aesthetic views and opinions
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And "Slovenes and Yugoslavs" (Slovenci in Jugoslovani), delivered in Ljubljana in 1913
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Ran as a candidate for the party in the largely working-class electoral district of Zagorje–Litija in Carniola, but lost to a candidate of the Slovene People's Party
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1906· 1 entry
Wrote the short novel Martin Kačur with the subtitle "The Life Story of an Idealist", which is a ruthless analysis and self-analysis of the failure of an abstract idealist
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1904· 1 entry
Turned to spiritualism and idealism, maintaining as central theme the oppressed people and their yearning for a better life
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1902· 1 entry
Wrote his first play Za narodov blagor (For the Welfare of the Nation), which was a violent parody of the liberal nationalist elite in the Slovene Lands, especially in Carniola
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1899· 1 entry
Cankar published his first collection of poetry under the title Erotika
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1898· 1 entry
Back to Vienna, where he lived until 1909
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1896· 1 entry
Enrolled at the University of Vienna, where he studied engineering, but later switched to Slavic philology
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1893· 1 entry
Discovered the epic poetry of Anton Aškerc, which had a huge influence on the development of his style and ideals
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1876· 1 entry
Born 1876-05-10.
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