16 Facts About Alojz Rebula

Alojz Rebula was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator, and a prominent member of the Slovene minority in Italy.

Alojz Rebula lived and worked in Villa Opicina in the Province of Trieste, Italy.

Alojz Rebula was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Alojz Rebula attended Italian-language schools, where he became acquainted with Italian culture and literature.

Alojz Rebula went to the gymnasium of Gorizia and later the lyceum in Udine, which he graduated from in 1944.

Alojz Rebula studied classical philology at the University in Ljubljana, from where he graduated in 1949.

In 1960 Alojz Rebula obtained his PhD from the University of Rome with the thesis Dante's Divine Comedy in Slovene Translations.

Alojz Rebula engaged in cultural work with the local Slovene community.

Alojz Rebula was co-editor of the literary journals Sidro, Tokovi and Most.

In 1975, Pahor and Alojz Rebula published a book interview entitled Edvard Kocbek: Pricevalec nasega casa, in which Alojz Rebula condemned the summary killings of 12,000 members of Slovene anti-communist militia in May and June 1945, perpetrated by the Communist authorities.

The book created a scandal in Yugoslavia and both Pahor and Alojz Rebula were banned from entering Yugoslavia for several years.

Alojz Rebula lived and worked in his native village in the Italian part of the Karst region.

Alojz Rebula published numerous collections of essays, diaries, novels, plays, short prose, and other works that have been translated into a number of foreign languages.

Alojz Rebula reflects on the fate of a small nation and on the more general issues of the human condition.

Alongside the philosopher Milan Komar, Alojz Rebula was one of the first Slovene authors who wrote extensively about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain, whom Alojz Rebula sees as one of his most important "spiritual fathers".

Alojz Rebula translated Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes and Plautus' Miles Gloriosus into Slovene as well as Slovene authors such as Kocbek and Levstik into Italian.