Draga Ahačič (6 July 1924 – 28 December 2022) was a Slovene actress, film director, translator and journalist. Ahačič was born in the small town of

Črnomelj Črnomelj (; in older sources also ''Černomelj'', german: Tschernembl''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 4.) is a town in southeastern S ...

in the

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region of

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(then part of the

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). During

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, she was a member of the Slovene National Theatre, which was operating within the Partisan resistance. After the war, she worked at the Drama theatre of

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, where she collaborated with the Slovene playwright and essayist

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in Slovenia. Her most important work is the book ''Gledališče pod vprašajem'' (Theatre Under Question, 1982). Ahačič was a translator of

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, and her focus included authors such as

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, and

Pierre de Marivaux Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing nume ...

. Ahačič died on 28 December 2022, at the age of 98.

References

* ''Slovenski veliki leksikon,'' Mladinska knjiga (2003) 1924 births 2022 deaths People from Črnomelj Slovenian stage actresses Slovenian translators French–Slovene translators Slovenian film directors Slovenian women film directors 20th-century Slovenian actresses 20th-century translators 20th-century Slovenian women writers {{Slovenia-actor-stub