Background
Magajna was born in 1904 into a farming family in Gornje Vreme near Divača in what was then the Austrian Littoral.
Magajna was born in 1904 into a farming family in Gornje Vreme near Divača in what was then the Austrian Littoral.
After finishing secondary schooling he studied medicine in Ljubljana and Zagreb and specialised in psychiatry.
He began his schooling in Vremski Britof and was later sent to the Collegium Marianum (Marijanišče), Catholic boarding-school in Ljubljana. This is where he began to write. He worked in the psychiatric hospital in Ljubljana for most of his career, though he also worked for short periods in Logatec and Sarajevo.
He was also a close friend and advisor to the avant-garde poet Srečko Kosovel.
During the Second World War, he was interned in an Italian concentration camp for a while and then joined the partisans where he worked as a doctor and also edited the Partisan Medical Journal. After the war he returned to work in the hospital in Ljubljana.
He lectured in various towns around Slovenia. He died in Ljubljana.
The Bogomir Magajna Primary School in Divača is named after him.
During this period, he became active in the circle of young Catholic and Christian Socialist intellectuals, who gathered around the journal Križ na gori.
