Josip Vandot ( Slovenian. Josip Vandot , January 15, 1884 , Kranjska Gora, Austria-Hungary - June 11, 1944 , village Trnjansky Kuti (now Croatia )) - Slovenian children's writer and poet .
| Josip Vandot | |
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| Slovene. Josip vandot | |
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| Aliases | and |
| Date of Birth | January 15, 1884 |
| Place of Birth | Kranjska Gora, Austria-Hungary |
| Date of death | June 11, 1944 (60 years old) |
| Place of death | village Trnyansky Kuti (now Croatia ) |
| Citizenship |  Austria-Hungary ,  |
| Occupation | prose writer , poet |
| Years of creativity | 1918-1944 |
| Direction | children's literature |
| Genre | prose , poetry |
| Language of Works | Slovenian |
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Biography
In interwar Yugoslavia, he worked as a railway official in Maribor . In 1922 he quit his job and devoted himself to completely literary work. He lived in Ljubljana , then in Slovenska Bistrica , later moved with his family to Maribor , where he lived until the outbreak of World War II.
In 1941, after the occupation of Yugoslavia by Germany, Vandot was deported to Croatia.
He died in 1944 during the Allied bombing of Slavonski Brod . After the war he was reburied in the cemetery of Jale Ljubljana .
Creativity
He made his debut in 1918, as the author of small tales of a bold and resourceful cowgirl named Kekes. In 1936 he published the book "Kekes from our city", which consisted of three fairy tales of his adventures. The book was translated into a number of foreign languages and three times (in 1951, 1963 and 1968) filmed.
J. Wandot is also the author of the novel for children "Prerok Muzelj" (1939) and numerous poems.
Selected Works
- Kekec na hudi poti (1918)
- Kekec na volčji sledi (1922)
- Kekec nad samotnim breznom (1924)
- Kekec z naših gora
- Potovanje naše Jelice,
- Kocljeva osveta,
- Ob siničjem pogrebu,
- Sin povodnega moža,
- Ko je bil ded še mlad,
- Mihec gre v Korotan,
- Leš v zameni.
Memory
- The streets in Ljubljana, Maribor, Kranjska Gora and Novo Mesto, and the primary school in Kranjska Gora are named after him.
- In Kranjska Gora, a bust and a memorial plate of J. Vandot are installed.
- In 2004, the Slovenian Post issued a series of stamps dedicated to the hero of the books of J. Vandot - the boy Kekes.
- On the occasion of the 130th birthday of J. Wandot, January 15, 2014, a new Google Doodle featured an image of the writer’s most famous hero, the shepherd’s boy Kekes, walking the Julian Alps.