France Kunstelj (November 22, 1914 – June 1945) was a Slovene Roman-Catholic priest, author, playwright, and editor.
At the bishop's order, he traveled to Rome in 1943 for a charity campaign, and he then visited the concentration camp in Padua.
[2][4] Kunstelj began publishing his first prose works in the magazine Domače vaje, and then as a theologian in the anthology Mlada setev, which he also edited from 1937 to 1941.
At the same time, he also published his short prose in Catholic magazines, especially in Mladika, Vigred, and Dom in svet.
He drew the material for his works from the Vrhnika environment, and his sketches and short stories depicted people's poverty, social injustice, and the depravity of life.