Miško Kranjec (September 15, 1908, Velika Polana - June 8, 1983, Ljubljana), born as Mihael Kranjec, later he adopted the name Miško. After finishing high school, he studied Slavistics, dropped out (1934), working as a journalist and he wrote. After the war, he fulfilled many important cultural functions. His works belong to socialist realism. One of the most important and prolific authors of Slovenian literature of the 20th century.