Lojze Kovačič

Lojze Kovačič was born on 9 November 1928 in Basel, to a Slovene father and a German mother. In 1938, the family was expelled from Switzerland, the father having refused nationality, and lived in poverty in Ljubljana; after the war, his mother and sister were expelled to a refugee camp in Carinthia, and he alone stayed. Called up for military service in 1948, he was unjustly sentenced to six months in a disciplinary battalion. He graduated in 1962, taught puppetry and literature, and died in Ljubljana on 1 May 2004.

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