Vinko Ošlak

Vinko Ošlak (born 23 June 1947) is a Slovene author, essayist, translator, columnist and esperantist from the Austrian state of Carinthia.

After completing his primary and high school education in his native province of Slovenian Carinthia, he enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied political science.

Among others, he became a close friend of the Slovenian Christian Socialist poet and dissident Edvard Kocbek, who strongly influenced Ošlak's spiritual and intellectual development.

Due to his critical attitude towards the Titoist regime, Ošlak was unable to get a job as journalist, and worked as a manual worker.

Two years later, he obtained an MA at the same institution with a thesis entitled "Identity and Communication in the Case of the Slovene Minority in Carinthia".