Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar
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

Ivan Cankar (pronounced [ˈtsaːŋkaɾ], 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.^[1]