France Vodnik

[1] France Vodnik was one of the main exponent of Slovene Christian left intellectuals who gathered around the journal Križ na gori (Cross on the Mountain).

Together with the poet and thinker Edvard Kocbek, Vodnik was one of the first Slovene Roman Catholic intellectuals to profess the Personalist philosophy.

By the mid-1930s, he was considered one of the most influential Slovene critics, together with the left liberal Josip Vidmar and the Marxist Ivo Brnčić, with whom he frequently polemized.

He also published a collection of poetry, entitled "The Fighter with God" (Borivec z Bogom), mostly composed of religious and mystical poems.

Among other, he translated works by Sienkiewicz, Stefan Żeromski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Jan Dobraczynski, Kazimierz Moczarski, and Stanislaw Lem into Slovene.