Janez Jalen

Janez Jalen was born into a rural family in the Upper Carniolan village of Rodine.

After the war he served as a priest in a number of places around Slovenia: Črnomelj, Stara Loka, Trnovo,[1] Notranje Gorice and Ljubljana where he took early retirement in 1933.

After the Second World War he re-entered service and was priest in Grahovo[2] and finally Ljubno where he died.

Later he began writing prose, in which he also deals with rural life, albeit in a slightly idyllic way.

His best-known work is a tale of a prehistoric people living in the marsh south of Ljubljana, titled Bobri (Beavers) which was published in three parts (Sam, Rod, Vrh; 1942–43).