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Name: Ivan Cankar  
   
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Date of Birth: 10th May 1876
   
Place of Birth: Vrhnika, Slovenia
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Ivan Cankar (Vrhnika, 10 May 1876- Ljubljana, 11 December 1918) was a famous Slovenian writer, dramatist and poet.

The son of a village tailor, he studied architecture in Vienna, and lived there for some time as a freelance writer.

He wrote around 30 books and is the primary exponent of Slovenian modernism. Among others, he wrote "Grešnik Lenart" (The Sinner Lenart), and his most famous work, "Hlapci" (Servants) is often quoted in Slovenia.

Cankar is one of the most important fin-de-siècle European writers, and dealt with social, national and moral themes.

Despite being part of most European literary currents, his work is neverthless very individual. Cankar influenced the thought about the Slovenian national question, and proposed the national emancipation of the Slovenians within an union of the Southern Slavic peoples. His story "Hlapec Jernej in njegova pravica" (The Servant Jernej and his Justice) has been translated into several languages.

His hometown Vrhnika (20 km from Ljubljana) boasts a museum dedicated to him. Next to France Prešeren, Ivan Cankar is the most famous writer of Slovenia.

The collected works of Cankar were published by Cankarjeva založba in Ljubljana.

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