Boris Pahor was an Italian-born Slovene author best known for his emotional depictions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre-World War II increasingly fascist Italy.
He was a Nazi concentration camp survivor. He revisited the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his deportation to Dachau in his novel Necropolis. Following his release from Dachau, he was sent three times: to Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen, and ultimately to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on April 15, 1945.
He was 108.
Boris Pahor cause of death
Pahor died at his house in Contovello, Trieste, Italy.
He was surrounded by family and friends.
Boris Pahor wife and children
In 2010, a theater version of Pahor’s novel Necropolis was presented in Trieste’s Teatro Verdi, directed by Trieste Slovene director Boris Kobal and supported by the mayors of Trieste and Ljubljana, Roberto Dipiazza and Zoran Jankovic.
Boris Pahor net worth
Pahor’s net worth as at the time of his death was 4 million.
Pahor was a significant public figure in the Fascist Italianization of the Slovene minority in Italy.
The French government gave him the Legion of Honour, the Austrian government the Cross of Honour for Science and Art, and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Boris Pahor funeral
His funeral is yet to be held as of 2022