Ciril Kosmač
Ciril Kosmač (28 September 1910 – 28 January 1980) was a Slovenian novelist and screenwriter.
Ciril Kosmač

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- Name
- Ciril Kosmač
- Born
- 28 September 1910
- Died
- 28 January 1980
- Birthplace
- Slap ob Idrijci, Trieste, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary
- Place of death
- Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- Screenwriter, writer, translator
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Italy and Cisleithania.
- Fields
- literature, translating activity, translation from English and translation from Italian.
- Honours
- Prešeren Award and Župančič Award.
- Languages
- Slovene, English and Italian.
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Ciril Kosmač (28 September 1910 – 28 January 1980) was a Slovenian novelist and screenwriter.
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Ciril Kosmač (1910–1980) was a screenwriter, translator and writer, a national of Cisleithania and the Kingdom of Italy. The screenwriter was born in Slap ob Idrijci and died in Ljubljana.
Ciril Kosmač was a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Activity centred on literature, translating activity and translation from English.
Languages used include English, Italian and Slovene. Honours include Prešeren Award and Župančič Award.
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• Name — Ciril Kosmač • Born — 28 September 1910 • Died — 28 January 1980 • Birthplace — Slap ob Idrijci, Trieste, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary • Place of death — Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia • Occupation — Screenwriter, writer, translator
Life
Life
He was born in a Slovene family in the village of Slap ob Idrijci near Sveta Lucija (now Most na Soči), in what was then the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca (now in Slovenia). He attended high school in Tolmin and Gorizia. In the late 1920s, when his native region was part of Italy, Kosmač joined the militant anti-fascist organization TIGR. In 1930, he was arrested by the Italian Fascist authorities, but released the next year. He fled to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and settled in Ljubljana. In 1938, he was granted a scholarship by the French government, and he moved to Paris, where he worked for the Yugoslav embassy. In 1940, he fled to London, where he worked at the BBC World Service. In 1943, he went to Cairo, and in 1944 to Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, where he joined the Yugoslav partisan resistance. After World War II, he worked as a reporter and a screenwriter for the emerging Slovenian film production industry. Among other, he wrote the screenplay for the film On Our Own Land. In 1956, he settled in the coastal resort town of Portorož, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1961, he became a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He died in Ljubljana, and was buried in his native village. In 1980, he was posthumously granted the Prešeren Award, the highest award for artistic achievement in Slovenia.
Work
Work
Kosmač is renowned mostly for his short stories, which are frequently praised for their subtle psychological depth. He started writing in the late 1930s, publishing short stories in the literary journal Sodobnost, edited by the literary critic Josip Vidmar. His early works show an affinity to other contemporary Slovene authors who embraced a style known as social realism: Prežihov Voranc, Miško Kranjec, Anton Ingolič, Tone Seliškar, Mile Klopčič, Bratko Kreft, Ivan Potrč and others. After World War II, he gradually turned away from social realism, and was among the first Slovene authors to include modernist features in his prose, especially surrealism. His later prose, which he is most renowned for, has frequently been considered a type of magical realism.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Ciril Kosmač worked in literature, translating activity, translation from English and translation from Italian. He belonged to Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Identity
Identity
Ciril Kosmač is recorded as screenwriter, writer and translator.

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Life and career
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1910
Ciril Kosmač born at Slap ob Idrijci.
1980
Ciril Kosmač died at Ljubljana.
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Slap ob Idrijci.
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Ljubljana.
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Ciril Kosmač, 1910-1980
Literature
Literature
Literature
Slog je pomen, pomen je slog, Ivan Cankar: Edina beseda, Ciril Kosmač: Pomladni dan, Slavistična Revija, 2003
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