Slavko Fras (June 15, 1928,

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'' and the Austrian press agency APA, as well as being the editor of the fortnightly ''Naši razgledi'' in the 1980s and 1990s.

Career

In 1956, Fras graduated from comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana . After completing his studies, in 1957 he became a permanent correspondent for the Human Rights newspapers, then

and Borbe in

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. After returning to his homeland, Fras worked in Del as a foreign policy commentator in the period from 1961 to 1970, and then worked as an editor of Delo's Saturday annex. From 1970 to 1974 he was the first permanent correspondent for Delo and Borbo from Bonn in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1987 and 1988 he was president of the Association of Journalists of Yugoslavia. He was one of 571 ''Petition'' signatures ''against censorship and political pressures on journalists in Slovenia''.

Death

On March 1, 2010, Slavko Fras died at the age of 81.

References

External links

* http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?id=1486006 1928 births 2010 deaths Slovenian journalists Writers from Maribor {{Slovenia-writer-stub