Dobriša Cesarić

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Dobriša Cesarić
Dobrisa Cesaric.png
Born(1902-01-10)10 January 1902 [1]
Požega, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
(now Požega, Croatia) [1]
Died18 December 1980(1980-12-18) (aged 78)
Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
(now Zagreb, Croatia)
Occupationpoet, writer, translator
Language Croatian
Period19161970
Literary movement Modernism

Dobriša Cesarić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈdobriʃaˈt͡sěsarit͡ɕ] ; 10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator. He is considered one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century. [2] [ full citation needed ] [3] [ full citation needed ] In 1951, he became a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. [1]

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Literary work

His first appearance on the literary scene was when he was 14 years old, with the poem I ja ljubim ("I Love Too") published in a youth magazine Pobratim ("Blood Brother").[ citation needed ] His poetic oeuvre consists of ten collections of poems and a few translations.

Work as a translator

He translated from German, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian and Hungarian to Croatian.[ citation needed ]

Works

Published posthumously

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  1. 1 2 3 Draško Ređep (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon[Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 62-63.
  2. "article title". Vjesnik (in Croatian). 11 January 2002. p. 13.
  3. (in Croatian)