1. Josip Stritar (1836)

Slovenian Writer

Late 19th and early 20th-century Slovene writer who became known for his poetry, translations, and plays. His dramatic works include Medeja and Rejenka; his poetry collections include Pesmi and Dunajski...

2. France Bevk (1890)

Slovenian Writer

Slovene poet and translator who published more than one hundred books over the course of his career and received the prestigious Preseren Award. His literary works span the genres of...

3. Jože Javoršek (1920)

Slovenian Writer

Slovenian author and intellectual who became known for his plays, essays, poetry, and translations. He is considered one of the most significant Slovene intellectuals of the post-World War II era....

4. Taja Kramberger (1970)

Slovenian Writer

Slovenian poet, author, translator, and scholar. Her poetry collections include Marcipan, Zametni Indigo, and Vsakdanji Pogovori.

5. Drago Jančar (1948)

Slovenian Writer

Slovene, multi-genre author who is perhaps best known for his compelling political commentary. His novels include Northern Lights and Katerina; his stage plays include Daedalus and After Godot.

6. Miha Mazzini (1961)

Slovenian Writer

Writer, film director, and screenwriter who published more than twenty books. His novels include German Lottery, The Cartier Project, and Guarding Hanna.

7. Svetlana Makarovič (Unknow)

Slovenian Writer

Svetlana Makarovič is a Slovenian writer of prose poetry children's books and picture books and is also an actress illustrator and chanteuse. She has been called The First Lady of...

8. Prežihov Voranc (1893)

Slovenian Writer

Prežihov Voranc was the pen name of Lovro Kuhar a Slovene writer and Communist political activist. Voranc's literary reputation was established during the 1930s with a series of Slovene novels...

9. Samo Kuščer (1952)

Slovenian Writer

Samo Kuščer is a Slovene physicist and writer. He won the Levstik Award twice for his popular science books in 1987 Logo in računalnik and in 1993 for Energija. He...

10. József Szakovics (1874)

Slovenian Writer

József Szakovics Slovene Jožef Sakovič German orthography Joseph Sakowitsch was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest and author in the Prekmurje region.

11. Rudi Šeligo (1935)

Slovenian Writer

Rudi Šeligo was a Slovenian writer playwright essayist and politician. Together with Lojze Kovačič and Drago Jančar he is considered as one of the foremost Slovenian modernist writers of the...

12. Miško Kranjec (1908)

Slovenian Writer

Miško Kranjec born as Mihael Kranjec was a Slovene writer. Kranjec was born in the village of Velika Polana in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary in the...

13. Josip Vidmar (1895)

Slovenian Writer

Josip Vidmar was a notable Slovenian literary critic essayist and politician. From 1944 to 1946 he was President of the Slovenian Parliament. From 1952 to 1976 was President of the...

14. Cvetka Lipuš (1966)

Slovenian Writer

Cvetka Lipuš is an Austrian poet writing in Slovenian. She was born in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla in the Austrian province of Carinthia as the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian author...

15. France Balantič (1921)

Slovenian Writer

Balantič was a Slovene poet. His works were banned from schools and libraries during the Titoist regime in Slovenia but since the late 1980s he has been re-evaluated as one...

16. France Vodnik (1903)

Slovenian Writer

Vodnik was a Slovenian literary critic essayist translator and poet from Ljubljana. He was mostly active in the interwar period when Slovenia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He...

17. Terézia Zakoucs (Unknow)

Slovenian Writer

Terézia Zakoucs was a Hungarian Slovene author. She was born in Felsőszölnök. She married György Zakoucs. In 1858 she completed her hymnal in prekmurian language Cantiones Ritkarócziensis. The book...

18. Lili Novy (1885)

Slovenian Writer

Lili Novy née Haumeder was a Slovene poet and translator of poetry. She is considered the first Slovene female lyric poet as well as one of the most important Slovene...

19. Katja Špur (1908)

Slovenian Writer

Katja Špur was a Slovene journalist writer poet and translator. She wrote poetry children's books and contributed articles to numerous journals newspapers and children's magazines. She won the Levstik Award...

20. Lojze Grozde (1923)

Slovenian Writer

Lojze Grozde was a Slovenian student who was murdered by partisans during World War II. His death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church. He was beatified on June...

21. Aleš Šteger (1973)

Slovenian Writer

Aleš Šteger is a Slovene poet writer editor and literary critic. His poetry has been translated into numerous languages and published in over two hundred literary journals and magazines internationally....

22. Matej Bor (1913)

Slovenian Writer

Matej Bor was the pen name of Vladimir Pavšič who was a Slovene poet translator playwright journalist and partisan.

23. Franjo Malgaj (1894)

Slovenian Writer

jo Malgaj was a Slovenian soldier military leader and poet. He was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army. After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I he...

24. Igor Torkar (1913)

Slovenian Writer

Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin a Slovenian writer playwright and poet best known for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War II.

25. Alojz Rebula (1924)

Slovenian Writer

Alojz Rebula is a Slovene writer playwright essayist translator and a notable member of the Slovene minority in Italy. He lives and works in Villa Opicina in the Province of...

26. Vitomil Zupan (1914)

Slovenian Writer

Vitomil Zupan was a post-WW II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence he was called Slovene Hemingway and was...

27. Dušan Šarotar (1968)

Slovenian Writer

Dušan Šarotar is a Slovenian writer essayist literary critic and editor. Šarotar was born in the town of Murska Sobota in northeastern Slovenia. He studied sociology and philosophy at the...

28. Marko Kravos (1943)

Slovenian Writer

Marko Kravos is a Slovene poet writer essayist and translator from Trieste Italy. He was born in Montecalvo Irpino a small village in the Southern Italian region of Irpinia where...

29. Mihály Bertalanits (1788)

Slovenian Writer

Mihály Bertalanits was a Slovene cantor teacher and poet in Hungary. Beralanits was the son of peasants György Bertalanics and Katarina in the now uninhabited village of Gerečavci between...

30. Gregor Strniša (1930)

Slovenian Writer

Gregor Strniša was a Slovenian poet playwright and songwriter. He is considered as one of the most important Slovene language poet of the second half of the 20th century. He...

31. Urban Jarnik (1784)

Slovenian Writer

Urban Jarnik was a Carinthian Slovene priest historian poet author and ethnographer. He was born in the lower Gail Valley in the Duchy of Carinthia. He served as a parish...

32. János Zsupánek (1861)

Slovenian Writer

János Zsupánek or Zsupanek was a Slovene writer and poet in Hungary son of the poet and writer Mihály Zsupánek. His son Vilmos Zsupánek was also a writer and...

33. Miha Remec (Unknow)

Slovenian Writer

Miha Remec ) is a Slovene author. He is a past winner of the Damiru Hoyki given annually for the best science fiction novel.

34. Miran Jarc (1900)

Slovenian Writer

Miran Jarc was a Slovene writer poet playwright and essayist. Jarc was born in the town of Črnomelj in White Carniola in what was then Austria-Hungary in 1900. He was...

35. Miroslav Košuta (1936)

Slovenian Writer

Miroslav Košuta is a Slovene poet playwright and translator from Trieste a younger representative of Intimism and Socialist Realism. On 7 February 2011 he received the Prešeren Award the highest...

36. Tone Seliškar (1900)

Slovenian Writer

Tone Seliškar was a Slovene writer poet journalist and teacher. He published poetry short stories and novels and is also known for his youth literature. Together with Mile Klopčič he...

37. Valentin Vodnik (1758)

Slovenian Writer

Valentin Vodnik was a Carniolan priest journalist and poet of Slovene descent. He was active in the late Enlightenment period.

38. Simon Gregorčič (1844)

Slovenian Writer

Simon Gregorčič was a Slovene poet and Roman Catholic priest.

39. Janez Menart (1929)

Slovenian Writer

Janez Menart was a Slovene poet best known for his Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classical French and English poetry and drama works to Slovene including the...

40. Edvard Kocbek (1904)

Slovenian Writer

Edvard Kocbek was a Slovenian poet writer essayist translator member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered as one...

41. Josip Vandot (1884)

Slovenian Writer

Josip Vandot was a Slovene writer and poet who wrote mainly for young readers.