Zora Tavčar

Zora Tavčar (2 October 1928–4 August 2025 ) was a Slovene writer, essayist and translator, living in Opicina (Slovenian: Opčine) in the suburbs of Trieste, Italy. She was married to a notable member of the Slovene minority in Italy, writer Alojz Rebula.

Life Tavčar was born in Loka pri Zidanem Mostu in 1928. She studied comparative literature, literary theory and Slovene language and literature at the University of Ljubljana. In 1963 she completed her doctorate at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

In 1951, she married the Slovene writer and playwright Alojz Rebula and moved to Opicina (Opčine) near Trieste (Trst). Until her retirement in 1988, she taught at various secondary schools with Slovene as the language of instruction in the Trieste region.

Work She started off with writing poetry, but is better known for her short stories, essays and radio plays.

Published works Veter v laseh (The Wind in My Hair), 1982 Ob kresu življenja (At the Bonfire of Life), 1989 Kroži, kroži galeb (Fly in Circles, Fly Seagull), 2008