Ciril Kosmač
[1] He was born in a Slovene family in the village of Slap ob Idrijci near Sveta Lucija (now Most na Soči), in what was then the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca (now in Slovenia).In the late 1920s, when his native region was part of Italy, Kosmač joined the militant anti-fascist organization TIGR.After World War II, he worked as a reporter and a screenwriter for the emerging Slovenian film production industry.His early works show an affinity to other contemporary Slovene authors who embraced a style known as social realism: Prežihov Voranc, Miško Kranjec, Anton Ingolič, Tone Seliškar, Mile Klopčič, Bratko Kreft, Ivan Potrč and others.After World War II, he gradually turned away from social realism, and was among the first Slovene authors to include modernist features in his prose, especially surrealism.