Background
Zupanc was born in Ljubljana in 1906.
Zupanc was born in Ljubljana in 1906.
He trained as a teacher in Ljubljana and Maribor and worked as a teacher in Štrekljevec and numerous other places in White Carniola and the Kočevje area. During the Second World War he participated in the National Liberation Struggle and was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist authorities in 1943. His experiences of imprisonment are described in the autobiographical tale Sonce je umrlo (The Sun Had Died).
After the war he worked in Gornji Graduate and Škofja Loka where he retired in 1965 and lived until his death in 1973.