Miroslav Krleža
A leading Croatian writer and figure in the cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (1918-1941) and the Republic (from 1945, until his death in 1981). He has been often proclaimed as the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.
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Vitomil Zupan
Vitomil Zupan, who also wrote under the pseudonym Langus, was a Slovenian writer, poet, playwright, essayist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important authors in the Slovene language of the second half of the 20th century.
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August Šenoa
August Šenoa was a Croatian novelist, critic, editor, poet, and dramatist.
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He was a transitional figure, who helped bring Croatian literature from Romanticism to Realism and introduced the historical novel to Croatia. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
Zlatarovo zlato (Goldsmith's gold; 1871)
Čuvaj se senjske ruke (Pirates of Senj; 1876)
Seljačka buna (Peasants' revolt; 1877)
Diogenes (1878)
Šenoa was also the author of the popular patriotic song "Živila Hrvatska".
He was born in Zagreb, then part of the Habsburg Empire, into a family of Czech-German origin. His surname was originally spelled Schönoa. He studied law in Prague. He also lived in Vienna for a while, but returned to Zagreb in 1866. From 1874 to 1881, Šeno -
Eric Alfred Havelock
Eric Alfred Havelock was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States. He was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. In the 1960s and 1970s, he served as chair of the classics departments at both Harvard and Yale. Although he was trained in the turn-of-the-20th-century Oxbridge tradition of classical studies, which saw Greek intellectual history as an unbroken chain of related ideas, Havelock broke radically with his own teachers and proposed an entirely new model for understanding the classical world, based on a sharp division between literature of the 6th and 5th centuries BC on the one hand, and that of the 4th on the other.
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Đorđe Lebović
Rođen je u Somboru 1928. godine. Kao petnaestogodišnjak, zbog svog jevrejskog porekla, biva interniran u zloglasne nemačke koncentracione logore Aušvic, Mauthauzen i Saksenhauzen. Gorka iskustva stečena u ratu ostaviće kasnije dubok trag u njegovom delu. Nakon rata, 1947. godine započinje studije na Tehničkom fakultetu u Beogradu, odakle 1948. prelazi na Odsek za filozofiju Filološkog fakulteta gde diplomira 1951. godine. Već tokom studija radi kao novinar na Radio Beogradu i u humorističkom listu „Jež“, a nakon studija postavljen je na funkciju kustosa u Muzeju pozorišne umetnosti u Beogradu koju obavlja tokom 1954—1955. godine, ostavljajući pritom najobimniji rukopis, pisan rukom, „Prva inventarska knjiga Muzeja pozorišne umetnosti u Beog
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Josip Kozarac
Josip Kozarac (Vinkovci, 18. ožujka 1858. - Koprivnica, 21. kolovoza 1906.), hrvatski je prozaist - novelist, romanopisac, pjesnik, pisac pripovjetki i polemičar, diplomirani inženjer šumarstva, jedan od najpoznatijih hrvatskih šumara.
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Bio je jedan od važnijih hrvatskih prozaista, novelista, polemičara, pjesnika, ujedno i diplomirani inženjer šumarstva te najpoznatiji hrvatski šumar. Osnovnu školu završio je u Vinkovcima, te je pohađao gimnaziju koju je završio s puno muke, ali se sve promijenilo kada je upisao fakultet šumarstva u Beču. Diplomirao je 1879. godine na Visokoj školi za kulturu tla kao najbolji student na svojoj godini. Prije fakulteta živio je dosta slobodan i neobuzdan život. Puno je vremena provodio u prirodi, jednostavno pr -
Marko Marulić
Marko Marulić was a Croatian national poet and Renaissance humanist, known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance. He was also the first who defined and used the notion of psychology, which is today in current use.
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The central figure of the humanist circle in Split, Marulić was inspired by the Bible, Antique writers and Christian hagiographies. Main topics of his writings were Christian theological by nature. He was a poet and writer who wrote many poems, discussions on theology and Christian ethics, stories and some epics. He wrote in three languages: Latin, Croatian and Vulgar Italian (three letters and two sonnets are preserved).
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Daša Drndić
Daša Drndić (1946-2018) was a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright and literary critic, author of radio plays and documentaries. She was born in Zagreb, and studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade. Drndić worked as an editor, a professor of English, and as a TV programme editor in Belgrade. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Rijeka in Croatia, where she later taught. She is the author of thirteen novels including Leica Format (2003), Sonnenschein (2007), Trieste (2011) and Belladonna (2012). Her works have been translated into many languages, and Drndić has won the International Literary Award “Prozart" in 2014, awarded to a prominent author for their contribution towards the development of
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Mato Lovrak
Mato Lovrak was a Croatian children's literature writer.
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Mato Lovrak je bio hrvatski dječji pisac.
Mato Lovrak rođen je u Velikom Grđevcu, selu kod Bjelovara, u šesteročlanoj obitelji krojačkog obrtnika Mate i majke Ane. Četverogodišnju pučku školu završio je u rodnom selu, a nakon četiri razreda niže realne gimnazije u Bjelovaru upisao se u Učiteljsku školu u Zagrebu koju je završio 1919. godine. Nakon završetka škole je službovao kao učitelj u Kutini, Klokočevcu, Velikom Grđevcu i Velikim Zdencima, a od 1934. godine do mirovine 1954. godine u Zagrebu.
Pisao je i pripovijetke, ali je osobitu popularnost stekao romanima tematski vezanim uz djetinjstvo. Gradi zanimljivu fabulu s elementima pustolovnog, ali i s didaktičkim naglascima. Izuz -
Kristian Novak
Kristian Novak is a Croatian writer, linguist and university professor. He was born into a family of Croatian migrant workers in Germany, but spent his childhood and youth in a small village in Međimurje, the most northern part of Croatia.
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He moved to Zagreb, to college in 1997.
He was standard member of the Croatian karate national team from 1996 to 2009, winning a range of individual and team awards at national and global championships.
In 2006. he was European Vice-Champion.
His first novel, Obješeni (The Hanged) was published in 2005, but received no significant reception.
Dark Mother Earth (2013), his second novel, won The Tportal prize for Croatian novel of the year and is hailed as one of the best Croatian novels in the last 50 years. T -
Edgar Allan Poe
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
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Ante Kovačić
Tedious and a hard life through education. After he made to the doctor's degree, he managed to find an employment as a law clerk (Joseph Frank in Zagreb from 1875 to 1880). Eventually, he managed to run his own law firm in Glina, a poor neighborhood, where he often used to pay markers to a party, of his own money.
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He was a prominent supporter of the Party of Rights.
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Ranko Marinković
Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.
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Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary), Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Zagreb. In the 1930s, he began to make his name in Zagreb literary circles with his plays and stories.
His career was interrupted briefly during World War II. When his native island was occupied by fascist Italy, he was arrested in Split and interned on the Italian mainland. After the capitulation of Italy, Marinković went to Bari, and then to the El Shatt refugee camp where he made contacts with Tito's Partisans. After the war, he spent time working in the theatre.
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Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in 1993 and was based in Amsterdam since 1996. She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer".
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Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In 1971 she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for ch -
Slobodan Novak
Ante Slobodan Novak was a Croatian writer and novelist. He is best known for his novel "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" (1968), often listed as one of the best Croatian novels of the 20th century.
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Novak was born in Split on 3 November 1924 to Duje and Marija (née Smoje) Novak. He was baptized in the local church as Ante Slobodan Novak. He finished elementary school in Rab, attended the Classical gymnasium in Split, then graduated in Sušak. During World War II he joined the Yugoslav Partisans.
He then attended the University of Zagreb and earned a degree in Croatian and Yugoslav literature in 1953. He worked as an instructor, proofreader, and playwright for the Croatian National Theatre in Split. Later he worked as a journalist and an editor in -
Ivan Mažuranić
Ivan Mažuranić was a Croatian poet, linguist and politician—probably the most important figure in Croatia's cultural life in the mid-19th century. Mažuranić was born into a well-to-do yeoman family in Novi Vinodolski in northern coastal Croatia. He became a man of many abilities: he spoke 9 languages and was well versed in astronomy and mathematics. His realistic assessment of strengths and weaknesses of Croatia's position between the hammer of Austrian bureaucracy and the anvil of Hungarian expansionist nationalism served his country invaluably in times of political turmoil. Mažuranić is best remembered for the "triple accomplishment"—contributions in economics, linguistics, and poetry.
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Antun Gustav Matoš
Matoš was born in Tovarnik in the region of Syrmia, today's Croatian Vukovar-Syrmia County.
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He went to primary and secondary school in Zagreb. His attempt to study at the Military Veterinary College in Vienna ended in failure. He was conscripted in 1893, but he deserted in 1894, fleeing from Croatia to Šabac and then to Belgrade. He spent the next three years in Belgrade, living in his own words as a "cello player, journalist, and man of letters".
In January 1898 he traveled to Vienna and Munich, stayed for a while in Geneva, and then moved to Paris in 1899, where he would stay for five years. During his stay in Paris, he wrote his greatest stories.
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Vjenceslav Novak
Vjenceslav Novak (Senj, 11. rujna 1859. - Zagreb, 20. rujna 1905.), hrvatski romanopisac, novelist, publicist, glazbeni kritičar i pedagog
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Rođen je u doseljeničkoj češkoj obitelji, gdje je majka Senjanka iz doseljene bavarske obitelji. Bio je najugledniji pisac hrvatskog realizma, te su ga zvali hrvatskim Balzacom. Osnovnu i srednju školu je završio u Senju i Gospiću. Poslije završene preparandije u Zagrebu radi neko vrijeme kao učitelj u Senju.
U književnost ulazi 1881. godine pripovijetkom Maca. Napisao je sedam romana. Objavio je tridesetak pripovjedaka, a osim pripovjedne proze piše pjesme, feljtone, dramske pokušaje, recenzije, kritike i rasprave iz muzikologije i muzičke pedagogije.
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August Šenoa
August Šenoa was a Croatian novelist, critic, editor, poet, and dramatist.
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He was a transitional figure, who helped bring Croatian literature from Romanticism to Realism and introduced the historical novel to Croatia. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
Zlatarovo zlato (Goldsmith's gold; 1871)
Čuvaj se senjske ruke (Pirates of Senj; 1876)
Seljačka buna (Peasants' revolt; 1877)
Diogenes (1878)
Šenoa was also the author of the popular patriotic song "Živila Hrvatska".
He was born in Zagreb, then part of the Habsburg Empire, into a family of Czech-German origin. His surname was originally spelled Schönoa. He studied law in Prague. He also lived in Vienna for a while, but returned to Zagreb in 1866. From 1874 to 1881, Šeno -
Pavao Pavličić
Pavao Pavličić rođen je 16. kolovoza 1946. godine u Vukovaru gdje je završio osnovnu školu i gimnaziju. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirao je poredbenu književnost i talijanski jezik, a doktorirao je 1974. tezom iz područja metrike (Sesta rima u hrvatskoj književnosti).
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Od 1970. g. zaposlen je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu gdje je i danas redoviti profesor na Odsjeku za komparativnu književnost. Književni i znanstveni interesi kod njega su podjednako zastupljeni i isprepliću se. Kao znanstvenika, Pavličića zaokupljaju teme iz starije hrvatske književnosti i literarne teorije. Iz tog područja objavio je veći broj rasprava i nekoliko knjiga: Rasprave o hrvatskoj baroknoj književnosti, 1979, Književna genologija, 1983, Stih u dr -
Marin Držić
Marin Držić (also Marino Darza or Marino Darsa; 1508-1567) is considered the finest Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer. His works cover many fields: lyric poetry, pastorals, political letters and pamphlets, and comedies.
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Branko Ćopić
Branko Ćopić (Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић; January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He was born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.
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Upon the uprising in the Bosanska Krajina in 1941, he joined the Partizans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II. That period of his life influenced much of his literary work as can be seen by the themes he later writes about. Athe the end of the war he returned to Belgrade where he was, until 1949, the director of a children's magazine called "Pioniri". From 1951 until his death he was a professional wri -
Branko Ćopić
Branko Ćopić (Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић; January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He was born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.
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Upon the uprising in the Bosanska Krajina in 1941, he joined the Partizans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II. That period of his life influenced much of his literary work as can be seen by the themes he later writes about. Athe the end of the war he returned to Belgrade where he was, until 1949, the director of a children's magazine called "Pioniri". From 1951 until his death he was a professional wri -
Christiane V. Felscherinow
DE: Vera Christiane Felscherinow wurde als jugendliche Drogenabhängige zu einer Symbolfigur für die Verbreitung des Drogenmissbrauchs in Deutschland und der damit verbundenen Probleme in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Bekannt wurde sie in der Öffentlichkeit gegen Ende der 1970er-Jahre durch eine Reportage und ein begleitendes Buch der Zeitschrift Stern unter der abgekürzten Namensform „Christiane F.“ Sie hatte eine Karriere als Sängerin unter dem Namen Sentimentale Jugend.
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EN: Christiane F. (born Vera Christiane Felscherinow) is a former heroin addict famous for her autobiographical book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo which describes her struggle with drug addiction during her teens. She went on to have a singing career. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
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George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
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Meša Selimović
Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav and a Bosnian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the culture of the Bosniak inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also by his prose.
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Lermontov died in a duel like his great predecessor poet, Aleksander Pushkin.
Even more so tragically strange (if not to say fatalistic) that both poets described in their major works fatal duel outcomes, in which the main characters (Onegin and Pechorin) were coming out victorious. -
David Lodge
David John Lodge was an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T.S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a colle
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Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r -
Sophocles
Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής ; German: Sophokles , Russian: Софокл , French: Sophocle ) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia
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Vjenceslav Novak
Vjenceslav Novak (Senj, 11. rujna 1859. - Zagreb, 20. rujna 1905.), hrvatski romanopisac, novelist, publicist, glazbeni kritičar i pedagog
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Rođen je u doseljeničkoj češkoj obitelji, gdje je majka Senjanka iz doseljene bavarske obitelji. Bio je najugledniji pisac hrvatskog realizma, te su ga zvali hrvatskim Balzacom. Osnovnu i srednju školu je završio u Senju i Gospiću. Poslije završene preparandije u Zagrebu radi neko vrijeme kao učitelj u Senju.
U književnost ulazi 1881. godine pripovijetkom Maca. Napisao je sedam romana. Objavio je tridesetak pripovjedaka, a osim pripovjedne proze piše pjesme, feljtone, dramske pokušaje, recenzije, kritike i rasprave iz muzikologije i muzičke pedagogije.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, W -
Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton is an Irish writer.
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Hamilton's mother was a German who travelled to Ireland in 1949 for a pilgrimage, married an Irishman, and settled in the country. His father was a militant nationalist who insisted that his children should speak only German or Irish, but not English, a prohibition the young Hugo resisted inwardly. "The prohibition against English made me see that language as a challenge. Even as a child I spoke to the walls in English and secretly rehearsed dialogue I heard outside," he wrote later.
As a consequence of this, he grew up with three languages - English, Irish and German - and a sense of never really belonging to any: "There were no other children like me, no ethnic groups that I could attach myself to".
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Veljko Milićević
Veljko M. Milićević was a Serbian writer, translator, publicist and journalist. He is considered "the first authentic narrator of a modern formal stylistic and thematic orientation in Serbian literature at the beginning of the twentieth century."
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Veljko M. Milićević was born in Donji Čaglić in Slavonia on the 14th of January 1886, being the son of a rich merchant who travelled and settled in Lika when Veljko was still a boy. At the age of ten Veljko was placed in one Lika's better grammar schools in Donji Lapac and high schools in Gospić and then in Zagreb. After graduating, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. From Belgrade, he continued his law studies in Geneva, but switched over to the Faculty of Philosophy wh -
Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić is a novelist, essayist and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories; The Loss Library, a reflection on writing; and 101 Detectives, a collection of new short stories. He has edited volumes on architecture and art. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction by Yale University.
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Ranko Marinković
Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.
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Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary), Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Zagreb. In the 1930s, he began to make his name in Zagreb literary circles with his plays and stories.
His career was interrupted briefly during World War II. When his native island was occupied by fascist Italy, he was arrested in Split and interned on the Italian mainland. After the capitulation of Italy, Marinković went to Bari, and then to the El Shatt refugee camp where he made contacts with Tito's Partisans. After the war, he spent time working in the theatre.
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Isak Samokovlija
Isak Samokovlija was a prominent Bosnian Jewish writer. By profession he was a physician. His stories describe the life of the Bosnian Sephardic Jews.
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Samokovlija was born into a Sephardi Jewish family in Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of the Austro-Hungarian occupation. After completing primary school Samokovlija went to Sarajevo, attended high school and relocated to Vienna where he studied medicine. Later he worked as a doctor in the towns Goražde and Fojnica (1921–25) before beginning a regular job at Sarajevo's Koševo hospital in 1925. At the beginning of the Second World War, he was a department head at the Koševo hospital. In April 1941 he was discharged from service as well as other Jews, but soon he was mobilized as a m -
Ivo Brešan
Ivo Brešan was born in Vodice (Croatia) in 1936. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. From 1960 until 1983 he worked as a graduate teacher at the Sibenik Grammar School. Since 1983, he has been the art director of the Šibenik Theatre and the Šibenik Intemationational Children's Festival. Brešan is one of Croatia's most performed contemporary playwrights; he often writes in the Šibenik dialect. He has written several very succesful movies scenarios.
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Nada Mihelčić
Hrvatska književnica za djecu i mlade. U Zagrebu je završila gimnaziju, apsolvirala na FPN, paralelno upisala studij filozofije i indologije na FF i pohađala predavanja na pravnom fakultetu, trudeći se dobiti što šire obrazovanje, a onda je sve napustila i odlučila putovati. Dugo godina se bavila astronomijom, alpinizmom, te prodavala američke građevinsku i brodograđevnu opremu diljem Europe. Počinje pisati tek u zreloj dobi.
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Lajos Zilahy
Lajos Zilahy was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta (called Salonta in Romania) in Transylvania, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, an entity of Austria-Hungary, he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front - an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).
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He was also active in film. His 1928 novel Something Is Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His play The General was filmed as The Virtuous Sin in 1930 and The Rebel in 1931.
Edited Híd (The Bridge) 1940-1944, an art periodical. Opposed both fascism and communism. In 1939 he established a f -
Rastko Petrović
Rastko Petrović (Belgrade, 1898 – Washington, D.C., 1949), poet, novelist, travel writer, essayist, ethnographer, gifted sketcher, cameraman and photographer. He graduated law in France, and on his return to Yugoslavia he worked as an art and literary critic. After this he was employed in the diplomatic service and posted to Italy and the USA. Based at the Yugoslav embassy in Washington, D.C. during World War II, he remained in the United States after the war and died there.
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Hasan Kikić
Hasan Kikić was a well known Bosnian writer and a fighter for social justice.
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Kikić grew up in a poor family. His talent for literature was discovered early on. Thanks to his uncle he was able to attend the school for teachers in Derventa. He led a student protest and was soon expelled but able to finish in Zagreb. After graduation he joined the army where his literary career began with publication of his works in various literary journals and magazines. After the army he married Anka Jovanović in August 1932. He was worried that his wife would be persecuted for marrying someone of different religion and he permanently moved to Croatia. Because of his political activism he was noticed (negatively) by the government. He joined the Partisans -
Petar Hektorović
Petar Hektorović je hvarski renesansni pjesnik i erudit, humanist značajan po svom po mnogočemu jedinstvenom djelu Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje.
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Rodio se u uglednoj vlasteoskoj obitelji. Obično se potpisuje Petre, latinski Petrus Hectoreus, a talijanski P. Hettoreo. Nije utvrđeno gdje se i kada školovao, ali kako već u mladosti stvara na latinskom i talijanskom jeziku, može se pretpostaviti da je polazio hvarsku javnu školu, te da je školovanje nastavio u Splitu ili Italiji. 1491., nakon turske provale, počinje utvrđivati i definirati svoj ljetnikovac Tvrdalj. O Hektorovićevom interesu za suvremenike, kao i o njihovim međusobnim vezama, svjedoče brojne njegove poslanice. -
Marija Jurić Zagorka
Marija Jurić Zagorka was a Croatian journalist, novelist and dramatist, the first female journalist and second in the list of most popular Croatian writers of all time (by the 2005 poll compiled by Vjesnik, a Zagreb daily newspaper). Many of her works have been adapted to film.
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She was born in the village of Negovec near Vrbovec, to a well-standing family, which allowed her a good education, but in spite of her talent and many gifts, her parents decided to end her education early and, soon after leaving school, married her off to a man whom she barely knew, a Hungarian railway clerk 18 years her senior. The marriage ended abruptly with her escape from the house, first to Sremska Mitrovica and then to Zagreb, due to her husband's and mother-i -
Marin Držić
Marin Držić (also Marino Darza or Marino Darsa; 1508-1567) is considered the finest Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer. His works cover many fields: lyric poetry, pastorals, political letters and pamphlets, and comedies.
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Antun Gustav Matoš
Matoš was born in Tovarnik in the region of Syrmia, today's Croatian Vukovar-Syrmia County.
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He went to primary and secondary school in Zagreb. His attempt to study at the Military Veterinary College in Vienna ended in failure. He was conscripted in 1893, but he deserted in 1894, fleeing from Croatia to Šabac and then to Belgrade. He spent the next three years in Belgrade, living in his own words as a "cello player, journalist, and man of letters".
In January 1898 he traveled to Vienna and Munich, stayed for a while in Geneva, and then moved to Paris in 1899, where he would stay for five years. During his stay in Paris, he wrote his greatest stories.
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Ivan Gundulić
Ivan Gundulić (Giovanni Gondola; nadimak Mačica; Dubrovnik, 8. siječnja 1589. - Dubrovnik, 8. prosinca 1638.) hrvatski je pjesnik, epik, lirik i dramatik.
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Rođen je kao najstariji sin Frana Gundulića i Džive Gradić. Obitelj Gundulić bila je poznata još u 13. stoljeću, a njezini su članovi, kao pripadnici aristokracije, obavljali različite državno-administrativne poslove u Dubrovniku i okolici.
Obrazovao se u Dubrovniku, gdje su mu, uz ostale, učitelji bili Toskanac Camillo Camilli, koji je dopunio Tassov Oslobođeni Jeruzalem te svećenik Petar Palikuća, koji je na hrvatski preveo Život Karla Borromea. Nakon završetka školovanja, 1608. postaje član Velikoga vijeća. Nastavljajući obiteljsku tradiciju, obavlja više državno-administrativnih službi -
Mirko Bogović
Mirko Bogović (Varaždin, 1816 - Zagreb, 1893) was a Croatian poet, playwright and politician.
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Dinko Šimunović
Dinko Šimunović was born in Knin. He spent most of his life as a teacher in villages of the Zagora, the hinterland of southern Croatia.
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He wrote many stories and novels, all dealing with people from his native region. He considered rural life superior to urban, but he showed compassion for people forced to emigrate due to poverty.
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Ante Kovačić
Tedious and a hard life through education. After he made to the doctor's degree, he managed to find an employment as a law clerk (Joseph Frank in Zagreb from 1875 to 1880). Eventually, he managed to run his own law firm in Glina, a poor neighborhood, where he often used to pay markers to a party, of his own money.
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He was a prominent supporter of the Party of Rights.
A few days before moving to Djurdjevac, probably experienced the collapse of nerves - gets pneumonia, afterwards, and died not long after. -
Antun Branko Šimić
Pjesnik, esejist, kritičar i prevoditelj. Šimić bijaše pjesnikom izrazite težnje da zgusnutim, škrtim stihom intenzivira doživljaj svijeta. Takav je bio i kao esejist i kritik: volio je strogi red, čuvao se razlivenosti i praznine.
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Napisao je brojne eseje, književne i likovne kritike, polemike o novom pjesništvu, nekoliko kraćih proza, dnevnik, autobiografiju, nekoliko dramskih fragmenata, te započeo roman Dvostruko lice. Posthumno su mu objavljena izabrana djela, sabrana djela, proza i poezija. -
Ivan Slamnig
Ivan Slamnig was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator.
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Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and later taught at its Department of Comparative Literature.
Slamnig is considered one of the most important Croatian poets of the 20th century. His laconic, humor-infused modernist poetry is difficult to categorize, and proved popular with the critics and the public alike. His poem "Barbara", set to music by Zvonko Špišić, was a hit in 1975.
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Đuro Sudeta
Đuro Sudeta was a Yugoslav (Croatian) writer.
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After finishing the gymnasium in Zagreb, in 1922 he started working as a teacher at the civil school in Virje. Ever since the summer 1925, he fought tuberculosis, treating it in Topolšica, Zagreb and Koprivnica. In his brief lifetime he published two books of poetry: Osamljenim stazama ("By lonesome paths") and Kućice u Dolu ("Little houses in Dol"). He also wrote several novels and feuilletons.
Sudeta is a poet of dusky sentiments, rain, anxiety, disease and perishing, but he is want of the Sun, vivacity, spring and harmony, confronted with brutal reality of patient's deathbed. Sudeta is a lyric abounding with straightforwardness, creator of a divine religious inspiration, seeking for comfort of -
Ivan Kozarac
Ivan Kozarac was a Croatian novelist, poet and writer of short stories.
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He was an active writer for only four years. In his lifetime only a single book was published; a compilation of short stories, "Slavonian Blood" in 1906, and his other books were released only after his death (thanks in part to the efforts of Dragutin Tadijanović).
His cardinal work is the novel "Đuka Begović", first published in 1911. The novel describes many Slavonian traditions in an almost documentary style. It has since been made into a theatrical play and a movie by Branko Schmidt.
Kozarac failed to attract a particular attention to himself in his lifetime. He was a narrator of the life of typical villages of Šokadija during a time when the Military Frontier was fres -
Sanja Pilić
Sanja Pilić (Split, 16. svibnja 1954.) hrvatska književnica.
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Osnovnu školu i školu primijenjene umjetnosti završila je u Zagrebu. Kako sama autorica navodi za «odrasle, romantične i tužne» objavila je 2 zbirke priča: «Ah, ludnica» (Globus, 1986.) i «Tjeskoba šutnje» (Revija, 1990.). Iza nje je i nekoliko zbirki poezije: «Ženske pjesme» (Mozaik knjiga, 2000.,2001.), «Faktor uspjeha» (Mozaik knjiga, 2002. 2003.) i još ponešto: «Različitosti, od vrijeđanja do umorstva - priča Leti, Marta, leti» (Ljevak, 2003.); «Znala sam da moram izabrati drugačiji život» (Mozaik knjiga 2003., 2004.).Autorica je brojnih knjiga za djecu.
Dobitnica je nagrade Grigor Vitez za knjige "O mamama sve najbolje" (1990.) i "Sasvim sam popubertetio" (2002.) te nagrade Iva -
Ivan Marković
Rodio se u Zagrebu (1974), na zagrebačkome Filozofskom fakultetu diplomirao (1997), magistrirao (2001) i doktorirao (2007) hrvatski jezik. Od 1999. do 2003. u Institutu za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, na ondašnjemu projektu Rječnika suvremenoga hrvatskog jezika. Od 2003. na Katedri za hrvatski standardni jezik.
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Mikša Pelegrinović
Mikša Pelegrinović (Hvar, 1500. - Zadar, 26. prosinca 1562.) bio je hrvatski plemić i pjesnik.
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Rođen je oko 1500. godine na Hvaru u vlastelinskoj obitelji podrijetlom iz Barlette, sin Marijana i Nikolice. U rodnom mjestu završio je humanističku školu, a u Padovi studirao je pravo.
Godine 1530. kao siromašni plemić prihvatio je dužnost hvarskog defenzora. Godine 1530. postaje korčulanski notar, a krajem 1538. vraća se na Hvar. Dana 5. veljače 1548. Izabran je za kancelara kriminala u Zadru. U Veneciju je putovao dvaput - godine 1556. i 1557., vjerojatno kako bi tiskao Jeđupku ili neka druga svoja djela. Tada je upoznao Liviju Martinušević, kojom se oženio 1558. godine i s kojom je imao kći Juliju i sina Julija.
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Tin Ujević
Augustin 'Tin' Ujević is considered to be one of the greatest Croatian poets of all times.
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Ujević was born in Vrgorac, a small town in the Dalmatian hinterland, and grew up in what were then provincial towns of Imotski and Makarska. He completed classical gymnasium in Split and moved to Zagreb to study Croatian language and literature, classical philology, philosophy and aesthetics. This turbulent part of his life was marked by the bohemian milieu. His mentor was the central figure of Croatian early modernism, Antun Gustav Matoš, whom he later denounced. Briefly embroiled in the activities of Yugoslav nationalism (1912–1916), Ujević left politics for good, spending the rest of his life as a quintessential bohemian wanderer, residing and blas -
Milutin Cihlar Nehajev
Croatian writer and journalist. He wrote novels, studies and essays.
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In Vienna, he studied chemistry and in 1903 got a doctorate in philosophy.
He is known to be one of the most notable Croatian modernist writers; his novel "Bijeg" is often pointed out as the best novel of Croatian modernist period. -
Branko Radičević
Branko Radicevic je bio redak talenat koji je, sredinom devetnaestog veka, srpsku poeziju oplodio cistim narodnim jezikom. Napisao je svega pedeset cetiri i sedam epskih pesama,
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dva odlomka epskih pesama, dvadeset osam pisama i jedan odgovor na kritiku.
Kult Branka Radicevica je jedinstven i srpskoj poeziji i sire. Krajem sedamnaestog veka, Radicevici si, u velikoj seobi, dosli i Srem, i Boljevce. Brankov cukundeda Jefta poreklom je iz okruga kragujevackog. U Boljevcima zive i Brankovi pradeda Djordje i deda Stevan koji, krstareci Sremom, ponajvise se zadrzava u Kupinovu i Klenku, a zatim u Zemunu i Vrscu, odakle se doselio u Brod na Savi.
Brankov otac Teodor ozenio se Ruzom Mihajlovic, kcerkom bogatog vukovarskog trgovca Janka Mihajlovica, ma -
Mihailo Lalić
Mihailo Lalić (7. oktobar 1914 — 30. decembar 1992) je pisac koji se na samom početku književnog rada opredelio za jasan tematski krug (NOR), određeno geografsko podneblje (Crna Gora) i specifičan izbor aktera događaja i romanesknih priča. Započeo je knjigom pesama Stazama slobode (1948), ali se brzo okrenuo prozi, koja će postati isključiva forma umetničkog sagledavanja vremena, događaja i ljudskih sudbina. Prema njegovom scenariju snimljen je film „Svadba“ 1973. u režiji Radomira Šaranovića, takođe izvršena je ekranizacija njegovog romana „Lelejska gora“ 1968.
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Prvi je dobitnik „Njegoševe nagrade“ 1963. za roman „Lelejska gora“. Dobio je NIN-ovu nagradu 1973. za roman „Ratna sreća“. Dobio je nagradu „21. jul“, najviše priznanje opštine Bera -
Janko Leskovar
Po završetku učiteljske škole, službovao je kao učitelj u mnogim mjestima, a u književnosti se javio kao tridesetogodišnjak svojom novelom "Misao na vječnost" koja je objavljena u "Vijencu" 1891. godine.
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U svom desetogodišnjem književnom stvaralaštvu Leskovar je bio zaokupljen psihološkom analizom likova naglašeno nezainteresiranih ili nesposobnih za životnu borbu. Njegovi junaci postaju žrtvama vlastitih fikcija, kao ljudi kontemplacije koji život motre sa strane umjesto da u njemu djeluju. -
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Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, or Ljubomil Tito Babić (26 October 1854 – 6 February 1935) was a Croatian writer and civil servant.
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His real name was Ljubomil Babić and he was born in the Gredice castle near Klanjec and Zabok in Hrvatsko Zagorje, into a minor aristocratic family. He finished high school in Varaždin and earned law degrees in Zagreb and Vienna. He was also involved in politics. In 1906 he got elected into the Croatian Parliament. 1917 through 1918 he held the post of mayor of the Zagreb county.
He wrote novels, but his best known work is Pod starim krovovima (Under Old Roofs), a collection of short stories in which he described the economic decline of the Croatian aristocracy. Gjalski managed to combine realism and poetry in his work be -
Tatjana Gromača
Tatjana Gromača is a poet and fiction writer, and one of the greatest talents that has emerged in Croatian poetry in the last ten years. She is currently working as a journalist for Feral Tribune, a weekly magazine notorious for its political satire.
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Her travelogues, reportages, fiction, poetry, literary essays and other have been published in books and magazines. Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, Slovenian and German. -
Ivan Goran Kovačić
Ivan Goran Kovačić (21 March 1913 - 13 July 1943) was a prominent Yugoslav poet and writer of the 20th century.
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He was born in Lukovdol (part of Vrbovsko), a town in Gorski Kotar, to Croatian father Ivan and Jewish mother Ruža (née Klein). His middle name Goran stems from that ("goran" meaning "hill-man"). During World War II, he joined the Partisan forces.
His best known work is "Jama" (The Pit), which ranks among the most celebrated Yugoslav poems ever written. He penned it during the war, while in service near the city of Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The poem was written out of intellectual and ethical responsibility that condemns fascist atrocities committed by the Ustaše. Ivan Goran Kovačić was killed by Chetnik troops in an east-Bosni -
Edhem Mulabdić
Edhem Mulabdić, je bosanskohercegovački književnik i jedan od suosnivača časopisa Behar. U književnosti je najpoznatiji po svom romanu Zeleno busenje, objavljenom 1898. godine a koji obrađuje period iz austro-ugarske okupacije Bosne i Hercegovine.
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Edhem Mulabdić rođen je u Maglaju 1862. godine. Tu je završio mekteb i ruždiju i nakon toga zaposlio se kao činovnik. Godine 1887. Mulabdić upisuje Učiteljsku školu u Sarajevu i po njenom završetku odmah dobija posao u Brčkom. Odatle biva premješten u Sarajevo, gdje radi kao nastavnik u Dural-mualimminu, u muslimanskoj vjeroučiteljskoj školi. Iza toga je perfekt konvikta Učiteljske škole, zatim nastavnik u Šerijatskoj sudačkoj školi i potom nadzornik osnovne škole. Uskoro biva izabran za narodnog p -
Janko Matko
Janko Matko (20. 5. 1898 - 3. 8. 1979) pripovjedač, najznačajniji predstavnik tzv. pučke književnosti. Rođen je u Brleniću kraj Krašića. Polazio je franjevačku gimnaziju u Vukovaru. Zbog slomljene noge i neprilika I. svjetskog rata prekinuo je školovanje, izučio urarski, optičarski i draguljarski obrt u Vukovaru, potom živio u Rijeci, a od 1923. u Zagrebu. Tu počinje obnašati različite dužnosti u kulturnom društvu "Hrvatski radiša" te vodi vlastitu urarsku radionicu. Godine 1932. postao je predsjednik pjevačkog društva "Zvonimir". Prvu pripovjest Doći ću kući, majko, za Božić objavio je još 1917. u vukovarskim "Sriemskim novinama", a 1938. prvi (Žrtva) od dvadesetak romana (tri su izašla posmrtno) kojima je tematikom iz nacionalne povijesti
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Eugen Kumičić
Eugen Kumičić (Brseč, 11. siječnja 1850. - Zagreb, 13. svibnja 1904.), hrvatski književnik i političar
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Pseudonim - Jenio Sisolski
Eugen Kumičić rođen je 11. siječnja 1850. godine u malom istarskom mjestu Brseč. Osnovnu pučku školu, normalku, završio je u Brseču, privatno, učeći kod tamošnjeg župnika koji je okupljao hrvatsku djecu i pripremao ih u početnim znanjima.[1] Gimnaziju je završio u Rijeci. Počeo je studirati medicinu u Pragu, ali prelazi u Beč gdje studira povijest, zemljopis i filozofiju. Potom se u Zagrebu zaposlio kao srednjoškolski profesor. Oduševljavao se pravaštvom, te s Matkom Laginjom i Erazmom Barčićem pokreće u Kraljevici list Primorac te uređuje Hrvatsku vilu (1882-1883) i Hrvatsku (1887-1888). Od 1884. godine je kao pra -
Ivo Kozarčanin
Ivo Kozarčanin, hrvatski pjesnik, prozaik, književni kritičar.
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Ubrzo nakon rođenja seli u mađarsko mjesto Oreglak, gdje je njegov otac službovao kao željezničar. Nakon sloma Austro-Ugarske obitelj se vraća u Hrvatsku Dubicu u kojoj polazi pučku, a potom i trgovačku školu. Godine 1923. dolazi u Zagreb i nastavlja školovanje na građanskoj i učiteljskoj školi. 1932. upisuje Filozofski fakultet. Od 1938. urednik je kulturne rubrike “Hrvatskog dnevnika”. Poginuo je nesretnim slučajem tako što ga je, dok je kasno navečer prolazio pored Topničke vojarne u Ilici, ustrijelio stražar.
Objavljivati je počeo vrlo rano, od 1928. godine. Tiskao je pjesme, kritike i kratku prozu u brojnim časopisima. U ranom razdoblju njegovi su radovi uglavnom namijenjeni