Lojze Zupanc (21 September 1906 – 2 June 1973) was a Slovene writer, poet, playwright and journalist best known for his short stories based on folktales and other traditional stories.[1]
Zupanc was born in Ljubljana in 1906.[2] He trained as a teacher in Ljubljana and Maribor and worked as a teacher in Štrekljevec and numerous other places in White Carniola and the Kočevje area. During the Second World War he participated in the National Liberation Struggle and was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist authorities in 1943. His experiences of imprisonment are described in the autobiographical tale Sonce je umrlo (The Sun Has Died). After the war he worked in Gornji Grad and Škofja Loka, where he retired in 1965 and lived until his death in 1973.[3]
He won the Levstik Award twice, in 1957 for his collection of stories Povodni mož v Savinji (The River Merman in the Savinja) and in 1971 for his collection of stories Zlato pod Blegošem (Gοld Under Mount Blegoš).[4]
Published works
Fairy tales and fables
Belokranjske pripovedke (Tales form White Carniola), 1932
Bili so trije velikani (There Were Once Three Giants), 1932
Dedek, povej (Tell Me Grandpa), 1939
Čudežni rog (The Magic Horn), 1944
Jezerka (The River Maiden), 1944
Svirel povodnega moža in druge belokranjske pripovedke (The River Neck and Other Tales from White Carniola), 1944
Velikan Nenasit (Neverful the Giant), 1944
Zaklad na Kučarju (The Treasure on Kučar), 1956
Povodni mož v Savinji (The River Merman in the Savinja), 1957
Deklica in kač (The Girl and the Snake, 1959
Čudežni studenec (The Miraculous Spring), 1960
Kamniti most (The Stone Bridge), 1964
Sto belokranjskih (A Hundred from White Carniola), 1965
Zlato pod Blegošem (Gold under Mount Blegoš), 1971
Sinček palček (The Tiny Son), 1979
Deklica s tremi lešniki (The Girl With Three Hazelnuts), 1984
Pripovedke o Škofji Loki (Tales of Škofja Loka), 2008
^Stanko Janež (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 590.