Boris Pahor
| Boris Pahor | |
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Boris Pahor in 2015
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| Born |
26 August 1913 Trieste, Austria-Hungary (present-day Trieste, Italy) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Slovene |
| Alma mater | University of Padua |
| Notable works |
Necropolis (As of 2013, it has been translated twice to English. It has also been translated into French, German, Catalan, Finnish, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Dutch, Croatian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Esperanto; original in Slovene.) |
| Spouse | Radoslava Premrl (1921–2010) |
Boris Pahor (
pronunciation ) (born 26 August 1913) is a novelist best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in the pre-Second World War increasingly fascist Italy, as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor. In his novel Necropolis he is visiting the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau. Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times; to Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen, and finally to the Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945.
As of 2013, the novel has been translated twice into English, first under the title Pilgrim Among the Shadows in 1995, and the second time under the title Necropolis in 2010. The masterpiece has been transleted into several European languages; French: Pèlerin parmi les ombres (1996), German: Nekropolis (2001, 2003), Catalan: Necròpolis (2004), Finnish: Nekropoli (2006), Italian: Necropoli (2008), Serbian: Necropola (2009), Spanish: Necrópolis (2010), Dutch: Nekropolis (2011), Croatian: Nekropola (2012), Portuguese: Necrópole (2013), and Esperanto: Pilgrimanto inter ombroj.
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