Tone Perčič (born 26 December 1954) is a Slovenian writer and translator. Perčič was born in

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the a ...

in 1954. He studied French and Italian at the

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and worked as a lecturer in Slovene at universities in

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, Berlin,

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and Paris. He won the

Kresnik Award Kresnik is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best novel in Slovene of the previous year. It has been bestowed since 1991 at summer solstice by the national newspaper house Delo. The awards ceremony is normally held on Rožn ...

for his novel ''Izganjalec hudiča'' in 1995.

Published works

* ''Pot v nestalnost'', short stories, (1981) * ''Dante pri Slovencih'', a study of

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in context of Slovenia and Slovene culture (1989) * ''Izganjalec hudiča'', novel, (1994) * ''Harmagedon'', novel, (1997) * ''In ti boš meni ponoči trkal na vrata'', short stories, (1998) * ''Prostozidarstvo'', a study on

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, (2000)

References

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