Boris Pahor

Boris Pahor ( born August 26, 1913 in Trieste, Austria - Hungary (now Italy) ) is a major Slovenian writer who lives in Italy.

Life

After the annexation of Trieste to Italy in 1918, belonging to the Slovene minority Pahor had to look at 1920 as the fascists, the Slovenian Cultural Centre ( Narodni dom ) set fire. After the visit of the Slovenian primary school him the use of the mother tongue was banned under Mussolini. He attended high school in Koper and the seminary in Gorizia, where he spent two years studying theology. In 1940 he was drafted and sent to Libya. In Italy, he worked as an interpreter for then caught Yugoslav officers in Bogliaco on Lake Garda. After the collapse of Fascist Italy, he returned back to Trieste in 1943, to join the liberation movement; already on 21 January 1944 he was arrested by the Domobrancen but militia and taken shortly after the Dachau concentration camp. By war's end he was still alive by the Natzweiler -Struthof, the concentration camp Mittelbau- Dora and Bergen Belsen. He processed in novels the concentration camp trauma from which its award-winning 1967 novel " Necropolis " (cf. necropolis = Necropolis ) was (translations into German, Italian, French, English, Catalan and Esperanto ).

After his release, he studied in Padua, where he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Slovenian poet Edvard Kocbek. From 1953 to 1975 he taught at a secondary school in Trieste. In 1955 he published the novel "Villa on the Lake" and "The City in the Bay " ( " Mesto v zalivu " ), 1956 " nomads without Oasis" ( " Nomadi Brez Oaze "). In 1975 he published the novel " In the darkness " ( " Zatemnitev " ), 1978 autobiographical novel " fight with the Spring" ( " Spopad s pomladjo "); first in 1958 under the title " Beyond the hell are people " ( " Onkraj Pekla so ljudje ", German 1997), which dealt with the concentration camp experiences, and 1984 "V labirintu " ( " In the Labyrinth ") and the literary-historical studies " Srečko Kosovel " (Pordenone, 1993) and" Letteratura Slovena del littoral. Vademecum. Kosovel a Trieste e altri scritti ", Trieste was 2004. Many years he was the editor of the magazine" Zaliv " ( " The Cove "). 2004 began the Kitab -Verlag in Klagenfurt with the systematic publication of his work in German translation.

Short stories have been translated into Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian. 1984 published his letters from 1940 to 1980 to Edvard Kocbek. In 2001 he was awarded the SWR leaderboard. His reflective narration is mentioned in one breath with Primo Levi, Jorge Semprún and Imre Kertész. Pahor is considered one of the most famous representatives of the critical Slovenian contemporary literature.

Since 2009, Pahor is a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Works

In German translation appeared:

  • Battle with the spring. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1997 ISBN 978-3-608-93399-4
  • Necropolis. Berliner Taschenbuch -Verlag, Berlin 2001 ISBN 978-3-8270-0408-6
  • Flowers for a leper. Kitab, Klagenfurt 2004 ISBN 978-3-902005-38-0
  • The city in the bay. Kitab, Klagenfurt 2005 ISBN 978-3-902005-42-7
  • Piazza Oberdan. Kitab, Klagenfurt 2009 ISBN 978-3-902585-24-0
  • The cradle of the world. Kitab, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-902585-50-9
  • In the labyrinth. Hermagoras Mohorjeva, Klagenfurt, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7086-0480-0
  • Nomads with no oasis, translated by Urška P. Cerne and Matthias Göritz; Hermagoras Mohorjeva, Klagenfurt, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7086-0481-7
  • The blackout, translated by Urška P. Cerne and Matthias Göritz; Hermagoras Mohorjeva, Klagenfurt, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7086-0457-2
  • Villa am See. Hermagoras Mohorjeva, Klagenfurt, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7086-0479-4
  • Secret Language Gifts, translated by Urška P. Cerne and Mätthias Göritz; Hermagoras Mohorjeva, Klagenfurt, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7086-0458-9
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