Ciril Kosmač

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Ciril Kosmač (28 September 1910 – 28 January 1980) was a Slovenian novelist and screenwriter.^[1]

Life

He was born in a

After

Kosmač is renowned mostly for his short stories, which are frequently praised for their subtle psychological depth.[1] He started writing in the late 1930s, publishing short stories in the literary journal Sodobnost, edited by the literary critic Josip Vidmar. His early works show an affinity to other contemporary Slovene authors who embraced a style known as social realism: Prežihov Voranc, Miško Kranjec, Anton Ingolič, Tone Seliškar, Mile Klopčič, Bratko Kreft, Ivan Potrč and others.

After World War II, he gradually turned away from social realism, and was among the first Slovene authors to include modernist features in his prose, especially

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