Viktor Car-Emin

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Viktor Car-Emin (born November 1, 1870 in Kraj near Lovran , Istria (part of Austria-Hungary), today Croatia; † April 17, 1963 in Opatija , Croatia ) was a Croatian writer .

Life

Viktor Car was the son of a seafarer. After he married Ema Jurković in 1897, he took her first name as the second surname Emin . He attended the Italian elementary school in Lovran and the Hungarian high school in Rijeka before starting a commercial apprenticeship. Finally he graduated from the trilingual teacher training institute in Koper and became a teacher. In addition, he headed the Istrian Kyrill and Method Society and edited the magazines Mladi Istranin and Mladi Hrvat . In 1919 he was a member of the National Assembly for Rijeka and Sušak . From 1921 he lived in Opatija , but was retired by the fascists in 1925 and was considered an undesirable person in Italy, so that in 1929 he emigrated to Sušak in Yugoslavia. After the war he returned to Opatija, which now belonged to Yugoslavia, and stayed there until his death. Since 1949 he was a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1960 he was awarded the order of bratstva i jedinstva .

Works

Car Emin's work was mostly about the sea and the lives of fishermen and sailors. He was a native Istrian writer and wrote novels, short stories and books for young people. He used a čakavian dialect. There are hardly any translations into German.

  • Naz uzburkanam moru , 1894
  • Striga Lega , play 1895
  • Pusto ognjište , novel 1900
  • Zimsko sunce , 1903
  • Usahlo vrelo , novel 1904
  • Novele Viktora Cara Emina , 3 vols. 1906
  • Iza plime , novel 1913
  • Starci , 1917
  • Iz podjarmljenih krajeva , Stories for Children 1921
  • Nevidljivi Jurić , play for children 1922
  • Nove borbe , novel 1926
  • Vicencica , 1934
  • Matko Mandić , 1938
  • Presječeni puti , 1938
  • Vitez mora , 1939
  • Suor Aurora Veronika , 1940
  • Na straži , 1946
  • Danuncijada. Romansirana kronisterija riječke tragikomedije 1919-1921 , 1946
  • Mali od foguna , 1949 (German Grum, the kitchen boy, 1964)
  • Udesni dani , 1951
  • Oj more duboko , short stories 1952
  • Moje uspomene na Družbu Sv. Ćirila i Metoda za Istru , 1953
  • Djela 2 vols. 1956
  • Careva pisma iz Liburnije , 1970
  • Izabrana djela 2 vols. 1977, 1981

literature

  • V. Antić u. V. Živančević, Car-Emin, Viktor , in: Leksikon pisaca Jugolavije , Volume 1, 1972 (Lexicon of Writers of Yugoslavia)
personal data
SURNAME Car-Emin, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viktor Car
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Kraj near Lovran , Istria
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1963
Place of death Opatija