Miško Kranjec () () (September 15, 1908 – June 8, 1983), baptized Mihály Krányecz, was a Slovene writer.

Life

Kranjec was born in the village of Velika Polana in what was then

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of the

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in the

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, as the son of the village tailor Mihalj Kranjec. When he was eleven years old, his native region of Prekmurje was incorporated into the

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and thus into

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. Kranjec studied Slavic

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at the

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. In the 1930s, he started writing his first short stories, following the emerging trend of

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. He incorporated themes from his native Prekmurje region, which was a novelty back then. In Ljubljana, he became a journalist and a left-wing political activist. In 1941, just prior to the

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, Kranjec became a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party. During

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he collaborated with the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. After the Communist takeover in 1945, he held several positions in the regime's cultural policy. In 1953, he became a member of the

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. He died in

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Legacy

Among his many works, the best known are the collections of short stories entitled ''Povest o dobrih ljudeh'' (A Story about Good People) and ''Strici so mi povedali'' (As My Uncles Told Me).

References

Miško Kranjec

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kranjec Misko 1908 births 1983 deaths People from Velika Polana Prekmurje Slovenes Slovenian male short story writers Slovenian short story writers Presidents of the Slovene Writers' Association Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts University of Ljubljana alumni Prešeren Award laureates Levstik Award laureates