Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar was born on 10 May 1876 in Vrhnika, the eighth of the twelve children of a tailor whose business went bankrupt; his mother, who raised the children alone, became in his work the figure of the woman who sacrifices herself. After the Realschule in Ljubljana, he went to Vienna in 1896 and lived there, with a few returns, until 1909, lodging most often with a family in Ottakring. A socialist candidate in 1907, imprisoned in Ljubljana Castle in 1914, he died in Ljubljana on 11 December 1918, from the effects of the Spanish flu.

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• NovelNa klancuIvan Cankar · 1902not translated into EnglishLiterature