Zora Tavčar (born 2 October 1928) is a Slovene writer, essayist and translator, living in

Opicina Opicina (), formerly Poggioreale del Carso in Italian, is a town in northeastern Italy, close to the Slovenian border at Fernetti (). Opicina is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Trieste, the provincial and regional capital. The town has a large ...

( Slovenian: Opčine) in the suburbs of

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, Italy. She was married to a notable member of the

Slovene minority in Italy Slovene minority in Italy (, ), also known as Slovenes in Italy (, ) is the name given to Italy, Italian citizens who belong to the autochthonous Slovenes, Slovene ethnic and linguistic minority living in the Italian autonomous region of Friuli-V ...

, writer Alojz Rebula.

Life

Tavčar was born in Loka pri Zidanem Mostu in 1928. She studied

comparative literature Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across language, linguistic, national, geographic, and discipline, disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role ...

literary theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, m ...

and Slovene language and literature at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

. In 1963 she completed her doctorate at the

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, colloquially the Catholic University of Milan () or simply the Cattolica, is an Italian private research university founded in 1921. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy, with satellite campuses in B ...

in Milan. In 1951, she married the Slovene writer and playwright Alojz Rebula and moved to Opicina (Opčine) near Trieste (Trst). Until her retirement in 1988, she taught at various secondary schools with Slovene as the language of instruction in the Trieste region.

Work

She started off with writing poetry, but is better known for her short stories, essays and radio plays.

Published works

* ''Veter v laseh'' (The Wind in My Hair), 1982 * ''Ob kresu življenja'' (At the Bonfire of Life), 1989 * ''Kroži, kroži galeb'' (Fly in Circles, Fly Seagull), 2008

References

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