July 9, 1887 – Writer and politician Dr. Anton Novačan was born, died March 22, 1951 in Pasadena (Argentina).

There are few biographies among Slovenian writers as varied and exciting as Novača's. Born into a family of ten children on a modest farm in Zadobrova, he left for the big world at the age of sixteen, first to Zagreb. Even before the First World War, he spent some time in the world capitals of the time – in Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Prague, where he absorbed the cosmopolitan spirit and liberal views on society, learned the great languages and became acquainted with their cultures firsthand. He vacillated between literature and politics from a very early age. After his studies, he was a lawyer, and for a few years he also had an independent law firm in Celje (1928-1933), but he ended up in diplomacy. He was said to have a volatile temper, and was stubborn and headstrong, and could not stay in one place for long.

After a short episode in Prague and Warsaw, he threw himself into politics, where he burned out, transformed from a liberal into a monarchist and tried to settle down at home, in Celje, even by getting married, but his restless spirit dragged him on. He became consul in Cairo, later in Klagenfurt and finally in Bari. He spent most of the Second World War in exile in Jerusalem and Cairo, separated from his beloved wife Pepuša for six years, whom God had not blessed with the children they wanted, so after the war he made the decision to move with his wife to Argentina forever. This is where he died. The urn with his ashes rests in the military cemetery, where, after many ups and downs, his widow secretly transferred it in 1966, when she returned to her homeland.