(ANSA) - LJUBLJANA / RADENCI - Boris Pahor spent his 101st
birthday in Ljubljana, on August 26, speaking during the second
in a series of two conferences organized in order to
''officially establish the Slovene School of Literature in
Trieste''. The first, on August 19 at the San Marco Café in the
regional capital town, and the second, ''on my birthday, in
Ljubljana'' as he summed up in an interview with ANSA. From
Radenci (on the Slovenian-Hungarian border), where he's spending
some days of rest, Pahor spoke about the centuries-old tradition
of Slovenian authors inTrieste, who established ''a literary
trend at a European level. Among them were Primoz Truber, who
published the first Slovenian books in the 16th century and was
educated in Trieste by Bishop Pietro Bonomo and then, in the
twentieth century, Srecko Kosovel (poet) and Vladimir Bartol
(novelist). In this literary movement you can even find me and
Rebula''. Pahor also spoke about his success among Italian
readers in recent years, especially thanks to his novel
''Necropolis'' (Fazi, 2008). ''In my works, I've always exposed
even those crimes perpetrated by the Italian fascists against
the Slovenian population. It's a chapter in European history
that has never been appropriately emphasised and that young
people should be aware of''. Despite his age, the Slovene writer
has obviously a very busy agenda. (ANSA).
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