His success was not instant; openly expressing his disapproval of communism in Yugoslavia, he was not acknowledged and was probably intentionally overseen by his homeland until after Slovenia had gained its independence in 1991. It was not until 2013 that his novel was first translated into English. The first translation (in 1995) was titled "Pilgrim Among the Shadows" and the second one (in 2010) "Necropolis". The masterpiece has been translated into several other languages: Esperanto: "Pilgrimanto inter ombroj" (1993), French: "Pèlerin parmi les ombres" (1996), German: "Nekropolis" (2001, 2003), Catalan: "Necròpolis" (2004), Finnish: "Nekropoli" (2006), Italian: "Necropoli" (2008), Serbian: "Necropola" (2009), Spanish: "Necrópolis" (2010), Dutch: "Nekropolis" (2011), Croatian: "Nekropola" (2012), Portuguese: "Necrópole" (2013).