death_date death_place birth_place awards notableworks birth_date image article_title name occupation
14 july 1994 ljubljana , slovenia dolnja bistrica , austria-hungary -lrb- now in slovenia -rrb- levstik award 1974 for sezidala si bova hišico krivda jarčekove kristine , sezidala si bova hišico 17 october 1912 ferdo godina -lrb- 1 -rrb- . jpg ferdo godina
 ferdo godina writer , partisan and political commissar
ferdo godina

ferdo godina -lrb- 17 october 1912 -- 14 july 1994 -rrb- was a slovene writer and partisan .
he was one of the early activists in the battle against the hungarian occupation of prekmurje during the second world war .
he wrote novels and short stories and was also a prolific writer for children and young adults .
godina was born in 1912 in dolnja bistrica in what was then the slovene march of the kingdom of hungary and part of austria-hungary and is part of prekmurje in slovenia .
he joined the partisans in 1941 .
he wrote mosty short stories , socially sensitive and often written in the first-person narrative .
he also published numerous works for young readers .
he died in ljubljana in 1994 .
the bistrica cultural society is named after godina .
he won the levstik award in 1974 for his series of stories for children `` sezidala si bova hišico '' -lrb- we shall build a house -rrb- .
