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Birthplace of Miška Kranjca

Miško Kranjec (1908 – 1983), born as Mihael Kranjec, was a Slovene writer. Kranjec was born in the village of Velika Polana in what was then the Zala County of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the son of the village tailor Mihalj Kranjec.  In the 1930s, he started writing his first short stories, following the emerging trend of social realism. He incorporated themes from his native Prekmurje region, which was a novelty back then.
In 1953, he became a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Among his many works, the best known are the collections of short stories entitled Povest o dobrih ljudeh ("A Story about Good People") and Strici so mi povedali ("As My Uncles Told Me"). He lived in this house.

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• Velika Polana 217, 9225 Velika Polana
• Telephone number:: 02 573 73 27 és 041 357 685
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• website:: http://www.pomurski-muzej.si/razstave/zunanje-zbirke/domacija-miska-kranjca

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