France Prešeren was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages.
Prešeren, 1850 oil portrait
Prešeren's birthplace in Vrba
Prešeren's muse, Julija Primic, in a portrait by Matevž Langus
O Vrba, the first of the Sonnets of Misfortune, published in 1834 in the 4th volume of Krajnska čbelica
Slovene literature is the literature written in Slovene. It spans across all literary genres with historically the Slovene historical fiction as the most widespread Slovene fiction genre. The Romantic 19th-century epic poetry written by the leading name of the Slovene literary canon, France Prešeren, inspired virtually all subsequent Slovene literature.
The Freising Manuscripts, dating from the 10th century, most probably written in upper Carinthia, are the oldest surviving documents in Slovene.
Protestant preacher Primož Trubar, author of the first printed book in Slovene
The Sower (1907) by the Impressionist painter Ivan Grohar is a metaphor for the Slovenes as a vigorous nation in front of an uncertain future and a nation that sows in order that it could harvest.