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Drago Jančar was born on 13 April, 1948 in Maribor, Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia), is a Slovenian writer and playwright. Discover Drago Jančar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Writer essayist playwright
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 13 April, 1948
Birthday 13 April
Birthplace Maribor, Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Nationality Slovenia

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1945

The booklet was a survivor's account of the Kočevski Rog massacres of the Slovene Home Guard war prisoners perpetrated by Josip Broz Tito's regime in May 1945.

He was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for "spreading hostile propaganda" but was released after three months.

Immediately after his release he was called up for military service in southern Serbia, where he was subjected to systematic harassment by his superiors due to his "criminal file".

After completing military service, Jančar briefly returned to Večer, but he was allowed to perform only administrative work.

He decided to move to Ljubljana, where he came into contact with several influential artists and intellectuals who were also critical of the cultural policies of the Communist establishment, among them Edvard Kocbek, Ivan Urbančič, Alenka Puhar, Marjan Rožanc, and Rudi Šeligo.

1948

Drago Jančar (born 13 April 1948) is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist.

Jančar is one of the most well-known contemporary Slovene writers.

In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement.

Jančar's novels, essays and short stories have been translated into 21 languages and published in Europe, Asia and the United States.

The most numerous translations are into German, followed by Czech and Croatian translations.

His dramas have also been staged by a number of foreign theatres, while back home they are frequently considered the highlights of the Slovenian theatrical season.

He lives and works in Ljubljana.

He was born in Maribor, an industrial center in what was then the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia.

His father, originally from the Prekmurje region, joined Slovene Partisans during World War II.

Jančar studied law in his home town.

While a student, he became chief editor of the student journal Katedra; he soon came in conflict with the Communist establishment because he published some articles critical of the ruling regime.

He had to leave the journal.

He soon found a job as an assistant at the Maribor daily newspaper Večer.

1970

Early in his career, Jančar was not allowed to publish his works, but when Kardelj's and Tito's deaths in the late 1970s led to gradual liberalisation, he was able to work as a screenwriter and playwright.

1974

In 1974 he was arrested by Yugoslav authorities for bringing to Yugoslavia a booklet entitled V Rogu ležimo pobiti (We Lie Killed in the Rog Forest), which he had bought in nearby Austria and lent to some friends.

1978

Between 1978 and 1980, he worked as a screenwriter in the film studio Viba Film, but he quit because his adaptation of Vitomil Zupan's script for Živojin Pavlović's movie See You in the Next War was censored.

1980

In the mid-1980s, he gained initial success with his novels and short stories, while his plays earned recognition throughout Yugoslavia.

From the late 1980s on, his fame began to grow outside the country, especially in Central Europe.

1981

In 1981, he worked as a secretary for the Slovenska matica publishing house, where he is now an editor.

1982

In 1982, he was among the co-founders of the journal Nova revija, which soon emerged as the major alternative and opposition voice in Socialist Slovenia.

He also befriended Boris Pahor, the Slovene writer from Trieste who wrote about his experience in the Nazi concentration camps.

1987

Between 1987 and 1991 Jančar served as president of the Slovene PEN Center and through this role also actively supported the emergence of Slovenian democracy.

In 1987, he was among the authors of the Contributions to the Slovenian National Program, a manifesto calling for a democratic, pluralistic and sovereign Slovenian state.

1990

Jančar has frequently pointed out Pahor's profound influence on him, especially in the essay "The Man Who Said No" (1990), one of the first comprehensive assessments of Pahor's literary and moral role in the post-war era in Slovenia.

Since the early 1990s, he has worked as an editor at the Slovenska matica publishing house in Ljubljana.

Jančar started writing as a teenager.

His first short novels were published by the magazine Mladina.

Jančar's prose is influenced by modernist models.

One of the central themes of his works is the conflict between individuals and repressive institutions, such as prisons, galleys, psychiatric hospitals and military barracks.

He is famous for his laconic and highly ironic style, which often makes use of tragicomic twists.

Most of his novels explore concrete events and circumstances in Central European history, which he sees as an exemplification of the human condition.

He also writes essays and columns on the current political and cultural situation.

During the war in Bosnia, he voiced his support for the Bosnian cause and personally visited the besieged Sarajevo to take supplies collected by the Slovene Writers' Association to the civilian population.

In his essay "Short Report from a City Long Besieged" (Kratko poročilo iz dolgo obleganega mesta), he reflected on the war in Yugoslavia and the more general question of the ambiguous role of intellectuals in ethnic, national and political conflicts.

Throughout the 1990s, he engaged in polemics with the Austrian writer Peter Handke regarding the dissolution of Yugoslavia.