Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar
Born(1876-05-10)10 May 1876
Vrhnika, Carniola, Austrian Empire
Died11 December 1918(1918-12-11) (aged 42)
Ljubljana, Kingdom of SHS
EducationUniversity of Vienna
Occupations
  • Writer
  • essayist
  • playwright
  • poet
  • political activist
Writing career
Genresplays, short stories, short novels, essays
Movements
Symbolism, Modernism

Ivan Cankar (pronounced [ˈíːʋan ˈtsàːŋkaɾ], pronunciationⓘ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.

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