Janko Kos (1931) is a literary historian and theorist, critic, publicist and editor. He received his doctorate in 1969, and from 1970 until his retirement he was a professor of comparative literature and literary theory at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Since 1983 he has been a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Among other things, he was a co-editor of the magazines Beseda and Perspektive, a contributor to Oder 57 and the editor-in-chief of Literary Lexicon. He is the author of numerous books and treatises in the fields of literary theory and history, aesthetics and philosophy. In addition to scientific and critical writings, he has also prepared many textbooks, manuals and anthologies. In 2001 he received the Zois Award for Lifetime Achievement, the highest national award in the field of science.

In his autobiographical work Artists and Citizens, Janko Kos recalls the lives of his parents' families and sheds light on his own life path. The author, who was in close contact with his father's artistic circle while growing up and, on the other hand, part of his mother's bourgeois milieu, describes the world of his contemporaries on the way to his student years, among whom we meet the philosopher France Vebro, the young Taras Kermauner, Dane Zajc and many others in a lesser-known light. Through his high school years in the turbulent times of World War II, the author's narrative leads us into the period of his studies and career, which is described in more detail in the upcoming memoir Ideologists and Dissidents.

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