Finžgar also wrote short stories and tales for children, the best known of which is "Mister Torrent" (). It is a eulogy to nature, written as a set of adventures of a clerk from Ljubljana in the Karawanks. In addition, he wrote a number of plays, none of them particularly successful. He translated several works of the Austrian poet Peter Rosegger, whom he admired, into Slovene. He was the editor of the family magazine "Mladika" ("The Shoot") and member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts.