Tone Peršak is a Slovene writer

Writer

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, politician

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, theatre director and journalist

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. He was elected to the first Slovenian National Assembly

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 in 1992. He was also president of the Slovene Writers' Association

Slovene Writers' Association

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 for one term between 2001 and 2003.

Peršak was born in 1947 in Ločki Vrh

Ločki Vrh, Benedikt

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 in eastern Slovenia

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. After attending secondary school in Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

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 and obtained a degree from the University of Ljubljana

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 in comparative literature

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 and a degree in theatre and radio directing from the Ljubljana Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

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. In 1992 he was elected to the Slovenian National Assembly

National Assembly (Slovenia)

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 on the Democratic Party of Slovenia

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 platform. He participated in various commissions including European affairs, infrastructure and environment, culture-education-sport, and others. He was also president of the Slovene centre of International PEN

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. He has been mayor

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 of Trzin

Trzin

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since 1999.

Published works

• Novelete (1981)
• Prehod (1982)
• Sledi (1985)
• Vrh (1986)
• Smer Hamburg-Altona (1988)
• Ljubljanske novele (1989)