Andrej Budal (31 October 1889 – 7 June 1972) was a Slovene-language writer, poet, journalist, and translator from Italy. He was born in

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, in the Slovene-inhabited suburban district of Sant'Andrea (), in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Italy). He studied

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at the

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, obtaining his PhD in 1913. After

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, he moved back to his native Slovene Littoral, which had been annexed to Italy, and was administered as part of the Julian March (''Venezia Giulia'') region. He worked as professor of French in high schools in Gorizia, Idrija, Tolmin,

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and

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. Together with France Bevk, Budal was one of the very few Slovene authors which remained in Italy after the

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takeover in 1922. Due to the policies of Fascist Italianization, he was forced to publish most of his works under various pseudonyms in Slovene journals in the neighbouring

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. In the late 1920s, Budal emerged as a prolific author of short stories, mostly published in the literary magazine '' Ljubljanski zvon'' from

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. After

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, he was included in the Yugoslav diplomatic delegation at the Paris Peace Conference which decided the new border between Italy and Yugoslavia. After the establishment of the Free Territory of Trieste in 1947, Budal moved to

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, where he became the director of the Slovene-language theatre. He was also famous for his translations of French Italian authors to Slovene. Among others, he translated

Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel ''The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), The Betrothed'' (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among ...

's '' The Betrothed'', Boccaccio's '' Decameron'', and short stories by Grazia Deledda and Guy de Maupassant. He died in Trieste.

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