As a result, he was prohibited from graduating from secondary school in Yugoslavia. At age 18, Zupan played Russian roulette and shot a friend in the head, killing him. His mother was a teacher and his father, a soldier, was killed in the First World War. Zupan was born in Ljubljana, then part of Austria-Hungary. He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers. In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under his pseudonym Langus. He is best known for Menuet za kitaro (A Minuet for Guitar, 1975), describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller. Vitomil Zupan (18 January 1914 – ) was a post- World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia)
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