After finishing primary school and high school in Celje, he first enrolled in law school in Zagreb, but after two semesters he switched to teaching and completed his supplementary teacher's matura in Ljubljana in 1919. He worked as a teacher in Prebold (1919/25) and Celje (1925/41), was deported to Serbia during the war, and after the war he returned permanently to Celje.

 

He began his literary career as a member of the Kondor circle, which in 1913/14 united nationally radical Celje high school students under the leadership of General Maister. Due to his sharp anti-Austrian views (the cyclopedic newspaper Savinja), he soon got into trouble with the authorities, but due to his undeniable literary talent, he soon began publishing in the Ljubljanski zvon and Slovan, and as a teacher in the left-leaning Svoboda and Domač prijatelju. After moving to Celje, he became one of the pillars of cultural, nationalist and political life in the city.

 

He wrote for both adult and children's audiences. Among the stories worth mentioning is the war story Zvesta četa (1933), in which he shaped the image of his generation, and similar stories are collected under the title Korporal Huš and other stories. For the first Celje Cultural Week, he wrote the text Himna Celju (1938), which was set to music by Karlo Sancin, and in collaboration with musician Risto Savin, he wrote the librettos for the operas Gosposvetski sen (1921) and Matija Gubec (1923).

His exile included Poems from Prison and Exile and a collection of memoirs entitled Slovenian Emigrants in Serbia 1941 – 1945. His important articles on Rudolf Maister, Franjo Malgaj, Sreček Puncer, etc. in Celje's journalism are also worth mentioning.

 

A large part of his creativity was intended for children. He published a series of poems and cartoons in the magazines Zvonček, Vrtec, Naš rod, Galeb and Kurirček, and in books he published the stories Teddy Bear (1929 and 1931), Juret's Journey (1939), Letalec Nejček (1972) and Vid Nikdarsit (1976). He also dedicated the plays Ušesa cesarja Kozmijana (1948) and Desetnica Alenčica (1951) to children, and the comedy Mokrodolci (1946) to adults.

He received numerous awards for his work, and in 1955 he became an honorary citizen of Celje.

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http://www.os-frana-rosa.si/

 

The local history department of the Celje library holds eight research papers on Fran Roš.