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Ivan Cankar
1876 – 1918 · aged 42
Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)
- Born
- 10 May 1876 · Vrhnika
- Died
- 11 Dec 1918 · Ljubljana
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- 10 May 1876BornBorn in Vrhnika
- 11 Dec 1918DiedDied in Ljubljana
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1876 – 1918).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
Biography
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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