Edvard Kocbek
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Edvard Kocbek was a Slovenian Yugoslav poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren. His political role during and after World War II made him one of the most controversial figures in Slovenia in the 20th century.
Kocbek (left) with a group of young Slovenian writers in Ljubljana, 1925. Left to right: Edvard Kocbek, Bogomil Hrovat, Slavko Grum, Anton Ocvirk, Josip Vidmar, Vladimir Bartol
Kocbek (third from the right, in the back) with Marshall Tito (first from the right) and a group of Yugoslav Communist resistance leaders in Drvar cave Bosnia in 1944.
Jože Javoršek
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Jože Javoršek was the pen name of Jože Brejc, a Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, translator and essayist. He is regarded as one of the greatest masters of style and language among Slovene authors. A complex thinker and controversial personality, Javoršek is frequently considered, together with the writer Vitomil Zupan, as the paradigmatic example of the World War II and postwar generation of Slovene intellectuals.
