Mile Klopčič (1905 - 1984)

He published his youth collection of activist songs, Plamteči okovi (Flaming Shackles), when he was only nineteen years old. Ten years after, in 1934, he published his more mature collection, Preproste pesmi (Simple Songs), which signalled a transition from Expressionism into Social Realism and the “Lyric Poetry of the New Reality”. Preproste pesmi represents of of the peaks of Slovenian socially engaged lyric poetry.

During the Second World War, when he joined the Partisan Resistance movement, he wrote his famous one-act play Mati (Mother), while after the Second World War, he focused his lyric-poetry-related activities mostly into translations of works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Heine and Brecht. He received numerous prestigious national and international awards for his work.

His brother France (1903–1986) was a publicist and a historian, while his sons Rok (1933–2010) and Matjaž (1934–2007) were a renowned violinist and one of the greatest people in Slovenian cinema respectively.

The library in Zagorje is named after Mile Klopčič.