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Ivan Cankar
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Ivan Cankar was a Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet who lived from 1876 to 1918 and used his literary works to engage in political activism. He matters because he was a major figure in Slovenian literature and culture during a pivotal period in Central European history.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1876
- Died
- 1918
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Aus fremden Leben
- Das Haus der Barmherzigkeit
- Za narodov blagor
- Zgodbe iz doline šentflorjanske
- Proza
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Slovenia
- Active from
- 1876-05-10
- Active to
- 1918-12-11
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 18
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations
· 2010 · cited 11,639x
- Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,131x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,019x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,390x
- A 3D Map of the Human Genome at Kilobase Resolution Reveals Principles of Chromatin Looping
· 2014 · cited 8,990x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1876-05-10 ) 10 May 1876, Vrhnika , Carniola , Austrian Empire
- Died
- 11 December 1918 (1918-12-11) (aged 42), Ljubljana , Kingdom of SHS
- Occupation
- Writer essayist playwright poet political activist
- Education
- University of Vienna
- Genre
- plays, short stories, short novels , essays
- Literary movement
- Symbolism , Modernism
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Ivan Cankar 1915.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ivan Cankar
- date of birth
- 1876-05-10
- date of death
- 1918-12-11
- Commons Creator page
- Ivan Cankar
- Commons gallery
- Ivan Cankar
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Article
Ivan Cankar ( pronounced [ˈíːʋan ˈtsàːŋkaɾ], pronunciation) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) 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.
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