Rajko Perušek was a Slovene writer

Writer

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, translator, linguist

Linguistics

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 and bibliographer

Bibliographer

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Perušek was born in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

, then part of the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

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, now the capital of Slovenia

Slovenia

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. He studied languages in Graz

Graz

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 and graduated in 1879 with Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

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 and Latin

Latin

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 as his main subjects. He worked in Pazin

Pazin

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 for a brief period before joining the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austro-Hungarian condominium)

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. Between 1880 and 1882 he taught at the newly founded gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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. His life in Bosnia was the inspiration for a number of his stories. From 1882 until 1890 he taught in Novo Mesto

Novo Mesto

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 and then un Ljubljana until he retired in 1910.

Between 1895 and 1915 he was president of the Writers' Support Society , the predecessor of today's Slovene Writers' Association

Slovene Writers' Association

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He is also known for his translations into Slovene of Njegoš

Petar II Petrovic-Njegoš

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's Gorski vijenac

The Mountain Wreath

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and Sophocles

Sophocles

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's Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus at Colonus

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