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The [[Louis Adamič Memorial Room]] is housed in Praproče, the birthplace of [[Louis Adamič]] (1898–1951), a Slovene writer who spent most of his life in the USA after emigrating there in 1913 at the age of 14. Known in the United States as Adamic (''a-dam'ik''), his literature dealt with the social and political issues of both countries (for example, ''Dynamite'', ''The Native's Return'', ''The Eagle and the Roots''). | The [[Louis Adamič Memorial Room]] is housed in Praproče, the birthplace of [[Louis Adamič]] (1898–1951), a Slovene writer who spent most of his life in the USA after emigrating there in 1913 at the age of 14. Known in the United States as Adamic (''a-dam'ik''), his literature dealt with the social and political issues of both countries (for example, ''Dynamite'', ''The Native's Return'', ''The Eagle and the Roots''). | ||
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The Louis Adamič Memorial Room was established in 1956 by the Slovene Emigrant Association. A collection consists of the copies of his books (both English language and translated into Slovenian), several issues of the Bulletin of the United Committee of the South-Slavic Americans (published by Adamič in NYC in the 1940s) as well as some personal belongings. Some documents and correspondence is kept at the Grosuplje Library that is in charge of the collection in Praproče.
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