12 Facts About Alenka Puhar

Alenka Puhar was born on 4 February 1945 and is a Slovenian journalist, author, translator, and historian.

Alenka Puhar's grandfather was the photographer and inventor Janez Puhar, who invented a process for photography on glass.

Alenka Puhar was born in Crnomelj to father France Mihelic, Slovene modernist painter, and mother Helena Puhar, a renowned pedagogue.

Alenka Puhar was born in a south-eastern area of Slovenia liberated then by Slovene partisans, which her parents were members of, during World War II.

Alenka Puhar never lived with her father because he was later married to a writer Mira Mihelic, albeit they have been keep in contact.

Alenka Puhar is the half-sister of Gregor Tomc, a notable sociologist and punk rock musician, who was born from Helena Puhar's later marriage.

Alenka Puhar became one of the co-editors of the alternative journal Nova revija.

Alenka Puhar was active in several civil activities throughout the Slovenian Spring, a process of political democratization between 1988 and 1990, which led to the independence of Slovenia in 1991.

Alenka Puhar later described the emergence of democratic movements, punk and art groups, feminist, lesbian and gay rights groups in Slovenia as causing traditionalists in other members of then Yugoslavia calling Slovenia 'selfish, greedy, separatist, fascists, Germans' etc.

Alenka Puhar translated works by Gore Vidal, Frederick Forsyth and Wole Soyinka to Slovene.

When it was published, it raised a controversy, in which Alenka Puhar was accused of portraying the history of Slovene family life in a terrible light.

In 2004, Alenka Puhar edited and published the memories of Angela Vode, one of the major activists of the feminist movement in Slovenia in the 1920s and 1930s who was condemned in the so-called Nagode trial, a show trial staged by the Communist regime in 1947.