Boris Pahor (1913-2022) is one of the most important Slovenian writers coming from Slovenian minority in Italy, and one of the most translated Slovenian authors. His best-known novel Necropolis, about his life in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration-camp, has been translated into 18 languages. In many of his works he describes his home town Trieste, the arson of the Slovenian cultural centre Narodni dom and the fight of the Slovenian minority to survive. Till the end of his life he refused any form of fascism – both in written form and in interviews.

Pahor is the recipient of more than 20 Slovenian and international literary and national awards. Among most outstanding are Slovenia's and Italy's highest national honours, the Order of Exceptional Merits of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Italian Republic, which were awarded to him jointly in July 2020.

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