Ivan Cankar
Slovene writer and playwright
Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. Wikipedia
Born: May 10, 1876, Vrhnika, Slovenia
Died: December 11, 1918 (age 42 years), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Influenced by: France Prešeren, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more
Parents: Neža Cankar and Jože Cankar
Education: University of Vienna
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