Juš Kozak
Juš Kozak (born June 16, 1892 in Laibach , Austria-Hungary ; † August 29, 1964 , SFR Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav writer.
Life
Kozak studied history and geography in Vienna and Ljubljana and was then a high school teacher in Ljubljana. In the interwar period he was editor of Ljubljanski zvon (1935–41) and Novi svet . During World War II he was interned in Italy in 1942 and subsequently became a partisan. After the war he became director of the Slovenian National Theater in Ljubljana.
Works
He was the most gifted epic of the preporod (rebirth) movement, who initially leaned toward Expressionism, but then became one of the most important authors of “social realism” of the 1930s. Kozak also wrote essays and reviews as a publicist. There are almost no German translations.
- Razori , novella 1919
- Šentpeter , Novel 1924–1926
- Beli mecesen , amendment 1926
- Lectov grad , 1929
- Celica , novel 1932
- Mask , novellas 1940
- Woheiner Pastorale, German 1940
- Blodnje , Essays 1946
- Lesena žlica , 2 vols., Novel 1947–52
- Rodno mesto , 1957
- Izabrana dela, 4 vols., 1959-62
- Zbrane delo, 1988
Web links
- Literature by and about Juš Kozak in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kozak, Juš |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laibach |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1964 |
| Place of death | Ljubljana |