1. Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor.
11 Facts About Vitomil Zupan
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Vitomil Zupan is best known for Menuet za kitaro, describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans.
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Vitomil Zupan is considered one of the most important Slovene writers.
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Vitomil Zupan's mother was a teacher and his father, a soldier, was killed in the First World War.
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At age 18, Zupan played Russian roulette and shot a friend in the head, killing him.
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Vitomil Zupan was released in 1955 and his two sons lived without their father, similar to his own childhood.
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Vitomil Zupan graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1958.
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Vitomil Zupan published his works for several years only under a pseudonym and was again able to publish under his name again from the 1960s onward.
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Vitomil Zupan died in Ljubljana in 1987 and is buried in the Zale cemetery.
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Vitomil Zupan is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels centered on the quest of an individual for his identity in the modern world.
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Vitomil Zupan wrote the children's book Potovanje v tisocera mesta.