Matjaž Kmecl 1934 – 2026
Authors and Writers
Authors and Writers, Politicians
Biography
Matjaž Kmecl (February 23, 1934 – November 7, 2026) was a Slovenian linguist, literary historian and theorist, poet, writer and politician. Born in Dobovec pod Kumom, he became one of Slovenia’s best-known literary scholars as the author of Mala literarna teorija, and was elected a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In April 1990 he was elected to the presidency of Slovenia in the country’s first multiparty elections. Kmecl died on November 7, 2026, at the age of 92.
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