Ivan Bratko | |
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Born | Celje, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia) | 15 February 1914
Died | 23 March 2001 Ljubljana, Slovenia | (aged 87)
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Notable works | Teleskop |
Notable awards |
Levstik Award 1955 for Teleskop |
Ivan Bratko (15 February 1914 – 23 March 2001) was a Slovene writer and publisher, partisan and officer.
Bratko was born in Celje in 1914. [1] He graduated in law from the University of Ljubljana [1] in 1941. He was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 1933 and published numerous articles and columns on socio-economic matters even before the Second World War. He was interred at Gonars concentration camp from where he escaped and joined the partisan. [1] His escape from Gonars was also the inspiration for his best known book Teleskop (Telescope), for which he won the Levstik Award in 1954. [2] From 1952 until his retirement in 1981 he worked as head of the DZS Publishing House. [3]
He died in Ljubljana in 2001. [4]
Ivan Bratko | |
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Born | Celje, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia) | 15 February 1914
Died | 23 March 2001 Ljubljana, Slovenia | (aged 87)
Occupation |
|
Notable works | Teleskop |
Notable awards |
Levstik Award 1955 for Teleskop |
Ivan Bratko (15 February 1914 – 23 March 2001) was a Slovene writer and publisher, partisan and officer.
Bratko was born in Celje in 1914. [1] He graduated in law from the University of Ljubljana [1] in 1941. He was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 1933 and published numerous articles and columns on socio-economic matters even before the Second World War. He was interred at Gonars concentration camp from where he escaped and joined the partisan. [1] His escape from Gonars was also the inspiration for his best known book Teleskop (Telescope), for which he won the Levstik Award in 1954. [2] From 1952 until his retirement in 1981 he worked as head of the DZS Publishing House. [3]
He died in Ljubljana in 2001. [4]