Marjan Rožanc
Marjan Rožanc (born November 21, 1930 in Slape near Ljubljana , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; died September 18, 1990 in Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) was a Slovenian writer.
Life
Marjan Rožanc's school attendance fell during the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Italian and German occupation of Yugoslavia and the beginnings of communist Yugoslavia. In 1950 he was drafted into the Yugoslav People's Army as a conscript and did military service in Požarevac . Because he was non-conformist, he was sentenced to several years in prison in 1951 and was only released in 1955.
Back in Ljubljana, he worked as a journalist and freelance author and became co-editor of the independent literary magazine Perspektive and director of the stage Oder 57 . One of his own pieces was forcibly removed from the censors in 1964. In 1968 Rožanc was sentenced to probation again because of some of his articles and because of his contacts with resistant Catholic intellectuals. From 1974 to 1981 he was secretary of the Association of Slovenian Sports Clubs. In 1979 he published his most famous novel, Ljubezen, about a child in World War II. In 1980 he received the Prešeren Prize for the novel .
In 1979 he moved to the Slovenian Adriatic coast. In 1987 he and Nekaj iracionalnih razsežnosti wrote a contribution to the discussion on civil rights in issue 57 of the Slovenian magazine Nova revija .
The Prešeren Prize was awarded to him a second time posthumously in 1991. The Rožančeva nagrada literary prize has been awarded for essays since 1993 .
Works (selection)
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Ljubezen . 1979
- Love . Novel. Translation of Metka Wakounig. Afterword Tomo Virk. Klagenfurt: Drava, Mohorjeva / Hermagoras, Wieser, 2013. ( Slovenian library .)
literature
- Aleksander Zorn : Interpretacije: Marjan Rožanc in njegovo delo . Ljubljana: Nova revija, 1991
Web links
- Literature by and about Marjan Rožanc in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Marjan Rožanc in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Marjan Rožanc in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marjan Rožanc , at Wieser
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rožanc, Marjan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ljubljana |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1990 |
| Place of death | Ljubljana |