1876
Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (died 1918)
Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (died 1918)
Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (died 1918)
Ivan Cankar
Slovene writer and political activist (1876–1918)
- Born
- 1876
Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.