Srecko Kosovel

About

Expressionist, Impressionist, and Constructivist poet who is considered one of the most important Slovene writers of the post-World War I era. Also an editor, he worked for a magazine called Mladina (Youth).

Before Fame

He published his first poems when he was just eleven years old.

Trivia

His literary works have been compared to those of Federico García Lorca.

Family Life

He was born in Sezana, Slovenia. He died at the age of twenty-two in the city of Tomaj.

Associated With

Kosovel founded the Ivan Cankar Club, which published literary pamphlets and sponsored intellectual debates.