Janko Lavrin (10 February 1887 – 13 August 1986) was a Slovene novelist, poet, critic, translator, and historian.

[2] He was educated in Austria, Russia and Scandinavia,[1] moving to St Petersburg in 1908 to study Russian language and literature.

[3] In 1915 and 1916 he served as war correspondent for Novoye Vremya covering the Serbian army's retreat through Albania.

In 1919 Bernard Pares helped Lavrin to get a teaching job at the University of Nottingham,[3] and he became Professor of Slavonic Studies there in 1923.

[4] After Lavrin's retirement in 1952[2] Monica Partridge would lead the university's department of Slavic studies.