Petar Šegedin (writer)

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Petar Šegedin (born July 8, 1909 in Žrnovo on the island of Korčula , Croatia , † September 1, 1998 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian writer.

Life

Šegedin was a teacher by profession. He first attended the teacher training college in Dubrovnik and then studied in Zagreb at the Pedagogical University and at the Philosophical Faculty. He worked as a teacher from 1928 to 1931 in Kula Norinska and Račišće, from 1933 to 1937 in Korčula and then in Zagreb. After the Second World War, Šegedin was managing director of Matica hrvatska from 1946 to 1947 , chairman of the Association of Croatian Writers and from 1956 to 1960 advisor on cultural issues at the Yugoslav embassy in Paris. Since then he has lived in Zagreb as a freelance writer and since 1964 as a full member of the Academy.

After the suppression of the Croatian Spring , he fell out of favor with the Yugoslav communist regime because of his Croatian nationalist sentiments. He was one of the co-founders of the Croatian Democratic Community ( HDZ ).

Works

Šegedin first published in the late 1930s in the journal Pečat by the writer Miroslav Krleža and became famous. He wrote novels, short stories and essays and became one of the most important Yugoslav authors after the war. In a decidedly psychologizing way of writing, he mostly explores human fears and experiences of his own childhood in Dalmatia .

  • Djeca božja , novel 1946 (German children of God, 1962)
  • Osamljenici , novel 1947
  • Na putu , 1953
  • Mrtvo more , 1953
  • Eseji , 1955
  • Essay o obliku i sadržaju , 1955
  • Čovjek u riječi , 1956
  • Susreti , 1962
  • Na istom putu , novella 1963
  • Orfej u maloj bašti , 1969
  • Izvještaj iz pokrajine , 1969
  • Riječ o riječi , 1969
  • Svi smo odgovorni? 1971
  • Izabrana djela I-II , 1977
  • Getsemanski vrtovi , 1981
  • Tišina , 1982
  • Vjetar , 1986
  • Licem u lice , 1987
  • Pričanje , 1991
  • Frankfurtski dnevnik , 1993
  • Svijetle noći , 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Šegedin, Petar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Žrnovo on the island of Korčula , Croatia
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1998
Place of death Zagreb