Lojze Zupanc (21 September 1906 – 2 June 1973) was a
Slovene writer, poet, playwright and journalist best known for his short stories based on
folktales and other
traditional stories
Traditional stories, or narrative, stories about traditions, differ from both fiction and nonfiction in that the importance of transmitting the story's worldview is generally understood to transcend an immediate need to establish its categorization ...
.
Zupanc was born in
Ljubljana
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in 1906.
He trained as a teacher in Ljubljana and
Maribor
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and worked as a teacher in
Štrekljevec and numerous other places in
White Carniola
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and the
Kočevje
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Geography
The town is located at the foot of the Kočevski Rog karst plateau on t ...
area. During the
Second World War
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he participated in the
National Liberation Struggle and was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist authorities in 1943. His experiences of imprisonment are described in the autobiographical tale ''Sonce je umrlo'' (The Sun Has Died). After the war he worked in
Gornji Grad and
Škofja Loka
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Geography
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, where he retired in 1965 and lived until his death in 1973.
He won the
Levstik Award
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twice, in 1957 for his collection of stories ''Povodni mož v Savinji'' (The River Merman in the Savinja) and in 1971 for his collection of stories ''Zlato pod Blegošem'' (Gοld Under Mount Blegoš).
Published works
Fairy tales and fables
* ''Belokranjske pripovedke'' (Tales form White Carniola), 1932
* ''Bili so trije velikani'' (There Were Once Three Giants), 1932
* ''Dedek, povej'' (Tell Me Grandpa), 1939
* ''Čudežni rog'' (The Magic Horn), 1944
* ''Jezerka'' (The River Maiden), 1944
* ''Svirel povodnega moža in druge belokranjske pripovedke'' (The River Neck and Other Tales from White Carniola), 1944
* ''Velikan Nenasit'' (Neverful the Giant), 1944
* ''Zaklad na Kučarju'' (The Treasure on Kučar), 1956
* ''Povodni mož v Savinji'' (The River Merman in the Savinja), 1957
* ''Deklica in kač'' (The Girl and the Snake, 1959
* ''Čudežni studenec'' (The Miraculous Spring), 1960
* ''Kamniti most'' (The Stone Bridge), 1964
* ''Sto belokranjskih'' (A Hundred from White Carniola), 1965
* ''Zlato pod Blegošem'' (Gold under Mount Blegoš), 1971
* ''Sinček palček'' (The Tiny Son), 1979
* ''Deklica s tremi lešniki'' (The Girl With Three Hazelnuts), 1984
* ''Pripovedke o Škofji Loki'' (Tales of Škofja Loka), 2008
Novels
* ''Pod križem'' (Under the Cross), 1944
* ''Mlini stoje'' (The Mills Stand Still), 1945
Other stories
* ''Stari Hrk'' (Old Hrk), 1934
* ''Tretji rod'' (The Third Generation), 1938
* ''Turjačani'' (Lords of Turjak), 1938
* ''Vklenjena mladost'' (A Chained Youth), 1943
* ''Sonce je umrlo'' (The Sun Has Died), 1964
* ''Anka Mikoljeva'' (Anka Mikol), 1979
References
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Slovenian writers
Slovenian children's writers
1906 births
1973 deaths
Levstik Award laureates
Writers from Ljubljana
Yugoslav Partisans members