Josip Vandot
Josip Vandot (15 January 1884 – 11 July 1944) was a Slovene writer and poet who wrote mainly for young readers.
Josip Vandot
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- Name
- Josip Vandot
- Born
- 15 January 1884
- Birthplace
- Kranjska Gora, Carniola, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 11 July 1944
- Place of death
- Trnjanski Kuti, Independent State of Croatia
- Occupation
- Writer, poet
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and Cisleithania.
- Languages
- Slovene.
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• Name — Josip Vandot • Born — 15 January 1884 • Birthplace — Kranjska Gora, Carniola, Austria-Hungary • Died — 11 July 1944 • Place of death — Trnjanski Kuti, Independent State of Croatia • Occupation — Writer, poet
Biography
Biography
• Illustration — Josip Vandot Street, Kranjska Gora Vandot was born in Kranjska Gora in Upper Carniola, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Slovenia. Under the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he was employed as a railway official in Maribor. In 1941, after the area was annexed by Germany, Vandot was deported to Croatia. He was killed in the Allied bombing of Slavonski Brod in 1944. A street is now named for him in Kranjska Gora.
Work
Work
Vandot is best known for the creation of the character Kekec, a brave and clever shepherd boy from the highlands of his home region, the Karawanks and Julian Alps. He wrote three books with Kekec as the main character: • Kekec na hudi poti (Kekec on the Hard Path, 1918) • Kekec na volčji sledi (Kekec on the Wolf Trail, 1922) • Kekec nad samotnim breznom (Kekec Above the Lonely Abyss, 1924) The Kekec books were adapted into three films about the character, although only the first was a direct adaptation of the first book: • Kekec (1951) • Srečno, Kekec (1963) (Good Luck, Kekec) – the first Slovene colour film • Kekčeve ukane (1968) (Kekec's Wiles)
Gedenktafel Josip Vandot, Kinderbuchautor, in Kranjska Gora
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