Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Boris Pahor across 7 places, from 1913 to 2009.
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Boris Pahor, OMRI (26 August 1913 – 30 May 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Boris Pahor was documented, and when
26 August 1913exact date
Triesteattested“Pahor was born on 26 August 1913 into a Slovene minority community in Trieste, the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the capital of the Austrian Littoral region at the time.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1938year
Goriziaattested“He then went to Gorizia to study theology, leaving in 1938.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1951year
Free Territory of Triesteattested“In 1951 and 1952, Pahor defended Kocbek's literary work against the organized attacks launched by the Slovenian communist establishment and its allies in the Free Territory of Trieste.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1966year
Triesteattested“He grew closer to Liberal Democratic positions and in 1966, together with fellow writer from Trieste Alojz Rebula, he founded the journal Zaliv (The Bay), in which he sought to defend "traditional democratic pluralism" against the totali…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1981year
Yugoslaviaattested“He was able to enter Yugoslavia only in 1981 when he was allowed to attend Kocbek's funeral.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1992year
Sloveniaattested“He was awarded the Prešeren Award, the highest recognition for cultural achievements in Slovenia, in 1992.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
2007year
Italyattested“Only after France and Germany recognized Pahor, his work began to be finally published in Italy in 2007.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
2009year
Friuli-Venezia Giuliaattested“In 2009, Pahor refused to accept an award by the mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza because the mayor did not mention Italian Fascism alongside Nazism and communism, causing a controversy on the political right in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, r…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
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1920year
Triestementioned“In 1920, Italian Black shirts in Trieste burned down the Slovene Community Hall (), which the young Pahor witnessed.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1920 to 1947period
Ljubljanamentioned“However, the proposal stalled at the commission for awards of the City Municipality of Ljubljana, who decided not to forward the proposal to the Ljubljana city council for a vote since Pahor publicly refused the idea because the Slovene…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1920 to 1947period
Italymentioned“However, the proposal stalled at the commission for awards of the City Municipality of Ljubljana, who decided not to forward the proposal to the Ljubljana city council for a vote since Pahor publicly refused the idea because the Slovene…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1935year
Kopermentioned“He enrolled in an Italian-language Catholic seminary in Koper, and graduated in 1935.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1940year
Libyamentioned“In 1940, Pahor was drafted into the Italian army and sent to fight in Libya.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1941year
Lombardymentioned“In 1941, he was transferred to Lombardy, where he worked as a military translator.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
September 1943month
Triestementioned“After the Italian armistice in September 1943, he returned to Trieste, which had already fallen under Nazi occupation.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
April 1945month
Île-de-France (region)mentioned“Between April 1945 and December 1946, Pahor recovered at a French sanatorium in Villers-sur-Marne, Île-de-France.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
15 April 1945exact date
Dachau concentration campmentioned“From there he was sent back to Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
15 April 1945exact date
Bergen-Belsen concentration campmentioned“From there he was sent back to Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1946year
Triestementioned“Pahor returned to Trieste at the end of 1946 when the area was under Allied military administration.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1947year
University of Paduamentioned“In 1947, he graduated from the University of Padua with a bachelor's thesis on the poetry of Edvard Kocbek.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1953 to 1975period
Triestementioned“Between 1953 and 1975, Pahor worked as an Italian literature instructor in a Slovene-language high school in Trieste.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
1955year
Triestementioned“In 1955, he described these crucial weeks of his life in the novel Mesto v zalivu (The City on the Bay), a story about a young Slovene intellectual from Trieste, wondering about what action to take confronted with the highly complex pers…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pahor
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