Drago Jančar

@Writers, Timeline and Personal Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer and activist Slovenian Activists Political Activists Writers Novelists Essayists Aries Celebrities Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer and activist. Throughout the splintering of Yugoslavia during the aftermath of the Cold War, his voice has been heard on issues regarding his homeland, although he has never pursued a career in politics. Early on, he espoused freedom of speech while Yugoslavia was still under Communist rule and wrote critically of the current regime while on the student newspaper. He was made to resign. Working for a daily newspaper, he was found guilty of distributing a pamphlet which detailed a massacre by Marshal Tito's forces during World War II, and was sentenced to a year of prison, gaining release after three months. He joined the army, but was persecuted throughout his army career as being a subversive element. His writing experience grew as he worked for a film studio, publishing house, and political journal. Although he was not allowed to publish early in his career, after Marshal Tito's death and gradual liberalization of Yugoslavia his novels, short stories, and plays flourished. In particular, Central Europe boasted of his writing, and his fame spread throughout the world, being translated into 21 languages in Europe, Asia and the United States. Recently, Jancar was a co-founder of the liberal conservative civic platform Rally for the Republic, and currently he works for a major publishing house in Ljubljana.

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Birthday: April 13, 1948 Nationality: Slovenian Famous: Activists, Political Activists, Writers, Novelists, Essayists Known as: Drago Jancar Birth Place: Maribor Gender: Male Sun Sign: Aries Information Detail Birthday April 13, 1948 Nationality Slovenian Famous Activists, Political Activists, Writers, Novelists, Essayists Known as Drago Jancar Birth Place Maribor Gender Male Sun Sign Aries Born in Maribor Famous as Writer

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Drago Jančar was born on 13 April 1948, in Maribor, in erstwhile Yougoslavia. His father was part of ‘Slovene Partisans’, an anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

As a teenager, he began writing for the 'Mladina’, a current affairs left-wing magazine. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Jančar studied law in his hometown Maribor .While attending college in the late 1960s, he was the chief editor of student journal 'Katedra’. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Drago Jančar worked for the daily newspaper 'Vecer.' In 1974, he was arrested for distributing a pamphlet decrying Marshal Tito's forces' role in the massacre of World War II prisoners in May 1945. Unsplash Career

Jancar was sentenced to a year in prison in 1975. After three months, he was released and immediately called to military service in southern Serbia. He had a tough time in his military and was harassed by his superiors. Unsplash Career

After completing his stint with the military, Drago Jančar joined back the newspaper ‘Vecer’, but was allowed to perform only administrative work. As a result, he decided to relocate to Ljubljana. Unsplash Career

His relocation to Ljubljana allowed him to befriend influential artists and intellectuals critical of the Communist regime in Yugoslavia. He counts Edvard Kocbek, the prominent poet whose political stances after World War II made him controversial in Slovenian politics, and Alenka Puhar, a leading proponent of psychohistory, as profound influences on his thoughts and actions. Unsplash Career

From 1978 to 1980, he worked as a screenwriter in the film studio, Viba Film. Censorship of his work led him to quit his job as at Viba Film. Unsplash Career

His essay 'Short Report From A City Long Besieged' compared the 1991–2001 Yugoslavian Wars between Serbs and Albanians. Unsplash Major Works

In his essay 'Xenos and Xenophobia', published in the year 2000, he accused the Slovenian liberal media of promoting anti-Catholicism and xenophobia. Unsplash Major Works

In 2011, Michael Biggins translated Jančar's 1978 novel 'The Galley Slave' into English. The novel describes a picaresque protagonist struggling to live in the Slovenian part of the world in the late Middle Ages era, complete with witch hunts, superstitions, and the plague. Unsplash Major Works

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Birthday	April 13, 1948
Nationality	Slovenian
Famous	Activists, Political Activists, Writers, Novelists, Essayists
Known as	Drago Jancar
Birth Place	Maribor
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Aries
Born in	Maribor
Famous as	Writer

Drago Jančar

Slovenian

Apr 13, 1948

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Maribor