Anton Ingolič

He went to the local school and completed his secondary education in Maribor before studying in Ljubljana and Paris. He worked as a secondary-school Slovene and French language teacher in Ptuj, Maribor, and Ljubljana. He was editor of the journal Nova Obzorja and became a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1976. He won the Prešeren Award twice, in 1949 for his novel Pot po nasipu and in 1978 for his literary opus for youth and adults. Between 1961 and 1963 he was president of the Slovene Writers' Association. The primary school in Spodnja Polskava is named after Ingolič.

Udarna brigada ("The Udarnik Brigade", 1946) Deček z dvema imenoma ("The Boy with Two Names", 1955) Tvegana pot ("The Risky Path", 1955) Tačko v velikem svetu ("Little Paw in the Great Big World", 1957) Tajno društvo PGC ("The Secret Society PGC", 1958) Mladost na stopnicah ("Youth in the Stairwell", 1962) Enajstorica živih ("Eleven Alive", 1964) Gimnazijka ("The [female] Gymnasium Pupil", 1967) Deklica iz Chicaga ("The Girl from Chicago", 1969) Zgodbe vesele in žalostne ("Happy Tales and Sad", 1971) Potopljena galeja ("The Sunken Galley", 1973) Diamanti, ribe in samovar ("Diamonds, Fish, and a Samovar", 1974) Deklica na sončnem žarku ("The Girl on the Sunbeam", 1976) Ptiček brez kljunčka ("Little Bird Without a Beak", 1977) Srečanje s podvodnim konjem ("A Meeting with the Hippopotamus", 1978) Bila sem izgnanka ("I Was a Refugee", 1979) Zgodbe mojega jutra ("Tales of my Morning", 1979) Moje pisateljevanje ("My Scribbling", 1980) Velika stavka ("The Great Strike", 1980) Zaupno ("Confidential", 1981) Nemir mladostnika ("The Disquiet of the Youth", 1982) Rokove zgodbice ("Rok's Little Tales", 1983) Čudovita pot ("The Wondrous Voyage", 1986) Leta dozorevanja ("Years of Maturation", 1987)