Vitomil Zupan
Slovenian writer (1914-1987) · Serbia · On the map · Writers · Died at 73
Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller.
Vitomil Zupan is read about 13 times a day, in 13 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 13 July 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Close ties
- Lojze Kovačič Influenced Vitomil
Igor Pretnar Directed Five Minutes of Paradise (1959)
Živojin Pavlović Directed See You in the Next War (1980)
Demeter Bitenc Vitomil wrote Peta zaseda (1968)
Stevo Žigon Vitomil wrote Five Minutes of Paradise (1959)
Boštjan Hladnik Directed Masquerade (1971)
Miha Baloh Also in The Shadow of Glory and Masquerade
Bert Sotlar Also in The Good Old Piano and The Idealist
Nikola Tanhofer Directed Fortune Comes at Nine o'Clock (1961)
Also in Deutsch
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About this person
He is best known for Menuet za kitaro, describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans. In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under his pseudonym Langus. He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers.
