Igor Torkar

Igor Torkar
Igor Torkar
Igor Torkar in 1962
Born
Boris Fakin

(1913-10-13)13 October 1913
Kostanjevica na Krasu, Gorizia and Gradisca, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia)
Died1 January 2004(2004-01-01) (aged 90)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupations
  • Writer
  • playwright
  • poet

Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin[1] (13 October 1913 – 1 January 2004), a Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet best known for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War II.[2]

  1. ^ Stanko Janež (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia: Matica srpska. p. 540.
  2. ^ "Umrl pesnik in pisatelj Igor Torkar :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija". rtvslo.si. Retrieved 28 April 2015.