Tin Ujevic
Tin Ujević (born July 5, 1891 in Vrgorac , Austria-Hungary , today Croatia as Augustin Josip Ujević ; † November 12, 1955 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian writer and poet .
Life
Augustin Tin Ujević was born in a small town in the Dalmatian hinterland. He attended the classical high school in Split . He then spent a few years in Zagreb and was influenced by the bohemian milieu of the time. After the First World War, he tried to participate politically in what was then the SHS state , later Yugoslavia, and represented a fraternal union between Croats and Serbs in fiery speeches in Belgrade . He later returned to writing. After the Second World War he was excluded from the newly formed Yugoslav Writers' Union for a few years.
After his death he was buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb .
Works (selection)
His main works are:
- Lelek sebra (cry of a slave), 1920
- Kolajna (chain), 1926
- Scalpel kaosa (The Scalpel of Chaos), 1938
- Žedan arrived na studencu (Thirsty Stone at the Spring ), 1954
- Auto na korzu (car on the road)
See also
Web links
- In memory of Tin Ujević. On: Website of the Croatian National Library in Zagreb (accessed on May 21, 2013)
- Biography from the student house Tin Ujević Zagreb (Croatian)
- Biography on the part of the Slobodna Dalmacija Tin Ujević (Croatian)
supporting documents
- ↑ Vladimir Fischer: The forgotten nationalization. A synchronous and diachronic analysis of ritual, myth and struggles for hegemony in the Yugoslav literary-political discourse from 1945 to 1952 . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 1997.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ujević, Tin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ujević, Augustin Josip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian writer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vrgorac |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1955 |
| Place of death | Zagreb |