Vladimir Bartol (February 24th 1903 with Trieste - September 12th 1967 with Ljubljana) is a Slovenien writer . Its novel Alamut was translated in many languages and made known it universally.

After having studied at the university of Ljubljana and the Sorbonne, it was useful in the army and lived in 1933-34 with Belgrade where it published a weekly magazine. Introducer of the theories of Freud in the Yugoslavia of before the Second world war, set on Philosophy (he was translator of Nietzsche) and on Biologie (its work on the lépidoptères côtoient today those of Nabokov in the college libraries), he wants to be initially essay writer.