Rajko Perušek (7 January 1854 – 25 February 1917) was a Slovene writer, translator,

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and

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. Perušek was born in

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

, then part of the

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, now the capital of

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. He studied languages in

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and graduated in 1879 with

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and

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as his main subjects. He worked in Pazin for a brief period before joining the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia. Between 1880 and 1882 he taught at the newly founded gymnasium in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

. His life in Bosnia was the inspiration for a number of his stories. From 1882 until 1890 he taught in

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and then un Ljubljana until he retired in 1910. Between 1895 and 1915 he was president of the ''Writers' Support Society'' ( sl, Pisateljsko podporno društvo), the predecessor of today's

Slovene Writers' Association The Slovene Writers' Association ( sl, Društvo slovenskih pisateljev) is a non-profit association of Slovene writers based in Ljubljana. The association was founded on 21 April 1872 in Ljubljana at the initiative of Davorin Trstenjak who also be ...

.Slovene Writer's Association site, History of the SWA
He is also known for his translations into Slovene of Njegoš's ''

Gorski vijenac ''The Mountain Wreath'' ( sr, Горски вијенац / Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play written by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. Njegoš wrote ''The Mountain Wreath'' during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the fol ...

'' and

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...

's '' Oedipus at Colonus''.

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