Josip Vandot
Josip Vandot was a Slovene writer and poet who wrote mainly for young readers.Biography
Vandot was born in Kranjska Gora in Upper Carniola, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Slovenia. Under the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he was employed as a railway official in Maribor. In 1941, after the area was annexed by Germany, Vandot was deported to Croatia. He was killed in the Allied bombing of Slavonski Brod in 1944. A street is now named for him in Kranjska Gora.Work
Vandot is best known for the creation of the character Kekec, a brave and clever shepherd boy from the highlands of his home region, the Karawanks and Julian Alps. He wrote three books with Kekec as the main character:
- Kekec na hudi poti
- Kekec na volčji sledi
- Kekec nad samotnim breznom
The Kekec books were adapted into three films about the character, although only the first was a direct adaptation of the first book:
