Oton Župančič
Slovenian poet, writer
- Lived
- 1878–1949
- Country
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Also writes as
- Gojko, Baroda, Aleksij Nikolajev, Anton Pesnik
Updated September 2026
About Oton Župančič
Oton Župančič was a Slovene poet, translator, and playwright. He is regarded, alongside Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. In the period following World War I, Župančič was frequently regarded as the greatest Slovenian poet after Prešeren, but in the last forty years his influence has been declining and his poetry has lost much of its initial appeal.
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