Literary fiction.2C poetry.2C essays.2C and criticism Culture of Slovenia

literature written in slovene language founded in 16th century primož trubar , other protestant reformers.

poetry in slovene language achieved highest level romantic poet france prešeren (1800–1849). in 20th century, slovene literary fiction went through several periods: beginning of century marked authors of slovene modernism, influential slovene writer , playwright, ivan cankar; followed expressionism (srečko kosovel), avantgardism (anton podbevšek, ferdo delak) , social realism (ciril kosmač, prežihov voranc) before world war ii, poetry of resistance , revolution (karel destovnik kajuh, matej bor) during war, , intimism (poems of four, 1953), post-war modernism (edvard kocbek), , existentialism (dane zajc) after war. short stories became popular genre after 1990s. there several slovene literary magazines publish prose, poetry, essays, , local literary criticism.

children s literature , poetry