Janko Lavrin

Janko Lavrin (; 10 February 1887 – 13 August 1986) was a Slovene novelist, poet, critic, translator, and historian. He was Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham. An enthusiast for psycho-analysis, he wrote what he called 'psycho-critical studies' of Ibsen, Nietzsche and Tolstoy.

Biography Lavrin was born in Krupa, White Carniola, Slovenia. He was educated in Austria, Russia and Scandinavia, In 1915 and 1916 he served as war correspondent for Novoye Vremya covering the Serbian army's retreat through Albania.

After Lavrin's retirement in 1952 Meanwhile Lavrin continued to write and translate.

Works В стране вечной войны: Албанские эскизы (In the country in the spring of war: Albanian sketches), Petrograd, 1916. "Dostoevsky and His Creation: a psycho-critical study", London, 1920 Tolstoy: a psycho-critical study, London, 1922 Studies in European literature, London, 1929 Aspects of modernism: from Wilde to Pirandello, London, 1935 An introduction to the Russian novel, New York and London, 1943 Dostoevsky: a study, New York, 1943 Pushkin and Russian literature, London, 1947 Tolstoy: an approach, London, 1948 From Pushkin to Mayakovsky: a study in the evolution of literature, London, 1948 Ibsen: an approach, London, 1950 Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852: a centenary survey, London, 1951 Goncharov, New Haven, 1953 Russian writers: their lives and literature, 1954 Lermontov, London, 1959 Russia, Slavdom and the Western World, London, 1969 Nietzsche: a biographical introduction, 1971 A panorama of Russian literature, London, 1973