Boris Pahor, a novelist in the Slovene language, who was best known for his descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre-WWII Fascist Italy, and as a Nazi concentration camp survivor, died May 30 in Trieste, Italy. He was 108.

In his novel Necropolis, he visits the Natzweiler-Struthof camp 20 years after his relocation to Dachau. Following Dachau, he was relcated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, Haerzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on April 15, 1945.

Pahor, a prominent figure in the Slovene minority in Italy, was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government, and the Cross of Honour for Science and Art by the Austrian government, and was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.