Josip Vandot
| Josip Vandot | |
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| Born |
15 January 1884 Kranjska Gora, Carniola, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 11 July 1944 (aged 60) Trnjanski Kuti, Independent State of Croatia |
| Occupation | Writer, poet |
| Nationality | Slovene |
Josip Vandot (15 January 1884 – 11 July 1944) was a Slovene writer and poet who wrote mainly for young readers.
Vandot was born in Kranjska Gora in Upper Carniola, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Slovenia. Under the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he was employed as a railway official in Maribor. In 1941, after the area was annexed by Germany, Vandot was deported to Croatia. He was killed in the Allied bombing of Slavonski Brod in 1944. A street is now named for him in Kranjska Gora.
Vandot is best known for the creation of the character Kekec, a brave and clever shepherd boy from the highlands of his home region, the Karawanks and Julian Alps. He wrote three books with Kekec as the main character:
The Kekec books were adapted into three films about the character, although only the first was a direct adaptation of the first book:
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