Lojze Zupanc

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Lojze Zupanc (21 September 1906 – 2 June 1973) was a Slovene writer, poet, playwright and journalist. He is best known for short stories based on folk tales and traditional stories. He was born in Ljubljana, then part of Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia). He trained to be a teacher in Ljubljana and Maribor and worked as a teacher in Štrekljevec and other places in White Carniola and Kočevje. During World War II he joined the National Liberation Struggle and was imprisoned by Italian Fascists in 1943. He wrote about his imprisonment in the autobiographical tale Sonce je umrlo (The Sun Has Died). After the war he worked in Gornji Grad and Škofja Loka, retiring in 1965 and living there until his death in 1973. He won the Levstik Award twice: in 1957 for Povodni mož v Savinji (The River Merman in the Savinja) and in 1971 for Zlato pod Blegošem (Gold Under Mount Blegoš).