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unusual facts about Boris Pahor


Slovenian National Defense Corps

At the time Boris Pahor, now an internationally best known Slovene writer from Trieste and concentration camp survivor, has been handed over and sent to the camps in Germany, another 600 persons were also handed over to the Germans by them.


1975 Zaliv Scandal

Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, who interviewed with Kocbek, were banned from entering Titoist Yugoslavia for several years and were only able to enter it to attend Kocbek's funeral.

The scandal followed after the killings were condemned by Edvard Kocbek in interview that appeared as a special edition of the journal Zaliv; it was written by two Slovene writers from Trieste, Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, and published in Italy.

Bukla Magazine

The authors interviewed by Bukla Magazine include Boris Pahor, Renata Salecl, Goran Vojnović, Miha Mazzini, Evald Flisar, Jani Virk, Milan Jesih, Aleš Debeljak, Mladen Dolar, and Slavoj Žižek.

Jože Javoršek

The epistolary novel Nevarna razmerja, a paraphrase of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos'es famous book Les Liaisons dangereuses, is written as a serial of partially authentic and partially fictitious letters between the author and several notable figures, both living and dead, among whom Vitomil Zupan, Boris Pahor, Pierre Emmanuel, Taras Kermauner, Dusan Pirjevec, and Francesco Robba.

Slovene Union

Several public figures of the Slovene minority in Italy have been public supporters of the Slovene Union, including the authors Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, historian Jože Pirjevec, journalist, editor and historian Ivo Jevnikar and others.


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