11 Facts About Dominik Smole

Dominik Smole was a Slovenian writer and playwright.

Dominik Smole later returned to Ljubljana and worked as stage director at the Slovene Youth Theatre and later at the Drama Theatre.

Dominik Smole belonged to the so-called Critical generation, a group of talented young intellectuals, mostly from Ljubljana, who tried to challenge the rigid and repressive cultural policies of the Titoist regime in Slovenia.

Dominik Smole spent most of his life in Ljubljana, working as a free-lance writer most of his life.

Dominik Smole died in Ljubljana in 1992 and is buried in the Zale cemetery.

Dominik Smole was not a prolific writer: he did not create a large oeuvre, but his works are nevertheless regarded as the peak of modern Slovene literature.

Dominik Smole was a crucial collaborator of the literary and cultural magazines that struggled to open a space for public debate in Communist Slovenia in the 1960s.

The central part of Dominik Smole's opus was published in the literary journal Beseda between 1951 and 1957, mostly as short stories with an urban theme, psychological and moral portraits of people and relationships, moral uncertainties and confusions of contemporary man.

Dominik Smole's main plays include Potovanje v Koromandijo, Igre in igrice, and Zlata ceveljcka.

Dominik Smole employed the same scheme in his most important poetic play, Antigona, written in 1961.

Dominik Smole was a sharp thinker who lucidly analyzed his surroundings.