Ivan Cankar
Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)
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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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- 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
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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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