In Italian - Celebrazione del Centesimo Compleanno dello Scrittore Triestino Boris Pahor a Toronto

Invitation - PDF

Dr. Irean Gril, Chargée d’ affairs a.i., Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs  in Ottawa, had organized the evening together with Prof. Anne Urbančič of the University of Toronto and others. She provided a documentary film and a display of selected works by Boris Pahor, in the original Slovenian and in translation. I contributed by bringing some of the first editions in my possessions, i.e., the original 1967 version of Nekropola which Boris had brought to my parents for me before they left for Canada; its French translation of 1990, Pélérin parmi les ombres, the American version of 1995, Pilgrim Among the Shadows; and also Na sipini (On the Dune) of 1960. While all the copies were inscribed to me, in the last one the dedication mentioned the titles of the two stories that had been inspired by our encounters, Alge med prsti (Algae Between the Fingers), and Na koncu pomola (At the End of the Pier)

Irena Gril with Dr. Anton Kačičnik (Kacinik) before the program.

Anton Kačičnik reading from Pahor’s work

Anne Urbančič reading from Pahor’s work

From Left to Right: Mirjam Čekuta, Anton Kačičnik, Damjana Bratuž, Peter Čekuta, Irena Gril, and Anne Urbančič

Damjana with Boris, his sister and Alojz Rebula in Gorizia in the 1950s

Draft: Early acquaintance-Legion d’honneur-Nobel candidate-Magris-Hayden White-Friedlander-Premio Viareggio-Premio Hemingway

Photos taken in 2006 at famous Caffé San Marco in Trieste

Boris Pahor and my father Rudi Bratuz with a friend at a party in Trieste in the 1950s

Links:

http://www.fazieditore.it/Libro.aspx?id=827
http://www.editfiume.com/lavoce/fvg/4108-boris-pahor-a-gorizia
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pahor