Igo Gruden

He attended high schools in Trieste and Gorizia, and then studied law in Vienna and Graz.

The same year, he moved to Ljubljana, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, where he practiced law.

During World War II, he collaborated with the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, and was interned by the Italian occupation forces to the Rab concentration camp.

After the war, he worked at the Slovenian section of the Yugoslav Radio in Belgrade, together with Matej Bor and Anton Ingolič.

During World War II, he published many poems describing the daily life in concentration camps.