Farewell to Boris Pahor, the Slovenian writer who fought for linguistic minorities
Born under the Habsburg Empire, he was 108 years old
The writer and intellectual Boris Pahor died at the age of 108. The Slovenian news agency Sta.
Born in Trieste in 1913 , Pahor is considered the most important Slovenian writer with Italian citizenship and one of the most significant voices in defense of linguistic minorities as well as in the story of the tragedy of deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
A first-person witness to the tragedies of the twentieth century, he has written about thirty books translated into dozens of languages, including "Here it is forbidden to speak", "The stake in the port", "The villa on the lake", "The city in the gulf" .
Among the awards, the double honor , Italian and Slovenian, which was awarded to him on 13 July 2020, on the occasion of the meeting between the heads of state of the two countries for the return to the Slavic minority of the Narodni Dom, his house of the burned people in Trieste by the fascists a hundred years earlier.
Born in Trieste on 26 August 1913 as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when the Julian city hosted the largest Slovenian community ever, even compared to Ljubljana, Pahor had found himself a child under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Italy . In the same period, as he had told “la Lettura”, he had survived the scourge of the so-called Spanish flu.
And not even seven years old, in July 1920, he had witnessed the burning of the Narodni Dom in Trieste, the seat of the Slovenian associations, set on fire by the squadristi of the ruthless hierarch Francesco Giunta.
(Unioneonline / vl)
