Ivan Cankar

Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)

1876 – 1918 ·

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Born: 10 May 1876, Vrhnika
Died: 11 December 1918, Ljubljana
Citizenship: Cisleithania, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Genre: poetry, short novel, sketch story, novella
Field of work: creative and professional writing
Buried at: Žale Central Cemetery
cause of death: 1918–1920 flu pandemic
described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
documentation files at: SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
family name: Cankar
given name: Ivan
instance of: human
languages spoken, written or signed: Slovene
manner of death: natural causes
sex or gender: male
topic's main category: Category:Ivan Cankar
writing language: Slovene

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Ivan Cankar (pronounced [ˈíːʋan ˈtsàːŋkaɾ], ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) 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. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.

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