Vladimir Bartol

Vladimir Bartol
Bartol in 1953
Bartol in 1953
Born(1903-02-24)24 February 1903
Trieste, Austria-Hungary
Died12 September 1967(1967-09-12) (aged 64)
Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
OccupationWriter

Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.