Dušan Savnik

Dušan Savnik was a Slovene lawyer, journalist and translator.
Savnik wrote a number of non-fiction books on geographical, historical and political aspects of various parts of the world including Latin America in Svet nasprotij, 1958, Africa in Afrika včeraj in danes, 1960, and Oceania in Oceanija v sodobnem svetu, 1964.
He also translated into Slovene books such as Michihiko Hachiya's Hiroshima Diary , 1958, Anton Zischka's Asiens wilder Westen, 1960 and Richard Wright's Black Power, 1960.
He won the Levstik Award in 1958 for Svet nasprotij, a look at twenty countries of Latin America.