Slovenian famous writer, novelist and poet France Bevk(1890-1970 is born at the Volar homestead in the village of Zakojca, where he spent his childhood and early youth. The homestead was ceremoniously opened to visitors in 1990 – on the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth. He spent his childhood and early youth in this hills living on a slope of Kojca mountain, above the Baška Valley. France Bevk is the author of more than 100 novels and collection of poems and many are translated in other foreign languages. Before second world war he was strongly influenced by expressionism, war experience in which he took active political role as a partisan, turned his writing into social realism. In old age he devoted himself to write for children. He won Slovenian most prestigious award for writers Prešeren Award twice in years 1949 and 1954.
Several authentically preserved rooms are on display in the house. The basement has a small stable for one or two cows and a few goats. On the ground floor are a vestibule and a kitchen with a hearth and an inbuilt pig kettle. The main living area is, of course, the place where the family gathered for meals and on long winter evenings. The room was heated by a tiled stove, while the modest shoemaker's corner furnished with a small table, two three-legged chairs and tools reveals that Bevk's father also made and repaired shoes. Closeby is a small bedroom in which the parents and smallest child slept, and another small room for Bevk's grandparents. After their death, this became France's room. Squeezed in the corner between the last small room and the kitchen is a shed for fodder, litter and tools.
Old, steep stairs still lead up to the attic, which is no longer the room in which Bevk wrote and illustrated his first book as a 12-year-old boy. The attic has been transformed into a large exhibition room displaying documents, photos, books and objects relating to the writer's life and work. France Bevk is presented as a writer, publicist, political and cultural worker.
See also
Prešeren Award and Prešeren Foundation Awards
External links
France Bevk
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