Anton Novačan
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Anton Novačan (July 7, 1887 – March 22, 1951) was a Slovene politician, diplomat, author, and playwright.
Novačan was born into a modest peasant family in the village of
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
.
In the early 1920s, Novačan became politically active. In 1921, he founded the Slovenian section of the
monarchist if he were accepted into the diplomatic service of the Kingdom. Novačan thus became a consul in Warsaw, Brăila, Cairo, Bari, and Klagenfurt
.
During all this period, he continued to write prose and poems, many of which were published in the literary magazine Nietzschean Übermensch in tragic conflict with his environment.
In the 1930s, he moved to
Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he managed to escape to Jerusalem. After a short period of British internment, he joined the Yugoslav Government in exile stationed in Cairo, Egypt
, where he worked as a clerk in the diplomatic office.
After the end of World War II in 1945, he moved to
Roman Catholic intellectual Tine Debeljak
, who introduced Novačan to the local community of Slovene immigrants.
He died in the Argentine city of Posadas in 1951.
References
- Janko Kos et al., Slovenska književnost (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1982), 244.
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