About Igor Torkar
Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin, a Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet best known for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War II. Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin (13 October 1913 – 1 January 2004), a Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet best known for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War II. During this time, he published his first short stories and essays under the pseudonym Igor Torkar in the literary journal Sodobnost. After two years of unemployment, Torkar became a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. From the 1990s onward, Torkar became a critical commentator and observer of the democratization of Slovenia, with regular columns in the newspapers Delo and Dnevnik.
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