Jože Pahor

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Jože Pahor
Born(1888-02-20)20 February 1888
Sežana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia)
Died1 September 1964(1964-09-01) (aged 76)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupationwriter, playwright, editor and journalist
Notable awardsLevstik Award
1951 for Hodil po zemlji sem naši

Jože Pahor (20 February 1888 – 1 September 1964) was a Slovene writer, playwright, editor and journalist.[1]

In 1951 he won the Levstik Award for his travel journal around Yugoslavia entitled Hodil po zemlji sem naši (I Walked Our Land).[2]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels
  • Medvladje (Interregnum), 1923
  • Serenissima (Serenissima), in the journal Ljubljanski zvon 1928–1929, as a book in 1945
  • Matija Gorjan (Matija Gorjan), 1940
  • Pot desetega brata (The Path of the Tenth Brother), 1951
Plays
  • Viničarji (The Vinedressers), 1937, as a book 1951
  • Čas je dozorel (The Time Has Come), 1953
  • Semena v kamenju (Seeds in Stone), 1954
Youth literature
  • Otrok črnega rodu (A Child of a Dark Race), 1937
  • Tako je bilo trpljenje (That's What the Suffering Was Like), 1946
  • Hodil po zemlji sem naši (I Walked Our Land), 1951
  • Mladost na Krasu (Youth on the Karst Plateau), 1959

References[edit]

  1. ^ Slovene Biographical Lexicon site
  2. ^ "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.