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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1913-08-26 ) 26 August 1913 , Imperial Free City of Trieste , Cisleithania , Austria-Hungary (present-day Trieste , Italy)
- Died
- 30 May 2022 (2022-05-30) (aged 108), Trieste, Italy
- Resting place
- Trieste Cemetery
- Occupation
- Writer
- Language
- Slovene Italian French
- Alma mater
- University of Padua
- Notable works
- Necropolis
- Spouse
- Radoslava Premrl (1921–2009)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Boris
- Family name
- Pahor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Trieste
- Place of death
- Trieste
- Occupation
- opinion journalist
- Educated at
- University of Padua
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Slovene
- Notable work
- Necropolis
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- opinion journalism
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Boris Pahor par Claude Truong-Ngoc juin 2015.jpg
- Residence
- Trieste
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- Boris Pahor
- place of detention
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- date of birth
- 1913-08-26
- influenced by
- France Bevk
- writing language
- Slovene
- subject has role
- centenarian
- name in native language
- Boris Pahor
- date of death
- 2022-05-30
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Encyclopedic overview
Boris Pahor ( Slovene pronunciation: [ˈbóːɾis ˈpàːxɔɾ]), OMRI (pronunciation; 26 August 1913 – 30 May 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor. In his novel Necropolis he visits the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau. Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, to Harzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945.
His success was not immediate; openly expressing his disapproval of communism in Yugoslavia, he was not acknowledged and was probably intentionally not recognized by his homeland until after Slovenia had gained its independence in 1991. His autobiographical novel Nekropola, published in 1967, was first translated into English (in 1995) as Pilgrim Among the Shadows, and secondly (in 2010) as Necropolis. The novel has also been translated into several other languages.
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