Vinko Kos

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Vinko Kos (born July 10, 1914 in Vučetinec , Sveti Juraj na Bregu , † May 1945 in Bleiburg ) was a writer of Croatian poetry .

Life

Kos attended high school in Varaždin and completed a theology degree in Škofja Loka . In Zagreb he studied from 1940 to 1943 at the philosophical faculty. His poems have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish and Romanian.

On July 12, 1941 Kos became the leader of Ustaška uzdanica ( Ustasha -Hoffnung) for primary school students from 7 to 11 years of age, a subgroup of the fascist youth organization Mladež Ustaška . At the end of the Second World War , Yugoslav partisans brought him from Zagreb. In 1945 he died of typhus near Klagenfurt .

Works

  • Vodopad , 1939 a. 1942
  • Kipar , 1941
  • Božićne zvjezdice , 1941
  • Dušenka , 1943
  • Šišmiš , 1943
  • Divlji dječak , 1943
  • Zlatna jabuka , 1943
  • Lada , 1944 (City of Zagreb Prize, 1945)
  • Planinski dječak , 1944
  • Zlatni orasi , Toronto 1967 (posthumous)
  • Sabrana djela [Collected Works], Vol. 1–2, Čakovec 1997

literature

  • Branimir Donat: KOS, Vinko . In: Darko Stuparić (ed.): Tko je tko u NDH: Hrvatska 1941. – 1945 [Who is who in the NDH: Croatia 1941–1945] . Minerva, Zagreb 1997, p. 198 (Croatian).
  • Daniel Mikulaco: O pjesništvu Vinka Kosa (iz nepoznate rukopisne ostavštine) [On the poetry of Vinko Kos (from previously unknown manuscripts)] . In: Ephemerides theologicae Zagrabienses . tape 81 , no. 2 , June 2011, p. 317-350 ( srce.hr ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DONAT, s. literature
  2. ↑ Vinko Kos - hrvatski književnik, pjesnik i pisac za djecu , January 27, 2018
  3. ↑ DONAT, s. literature
  4. ↑ Andrija Hebrang mlađi: Tragedija je hrvatske prošlosti u tome da će ona biti rasvijetljena tek kad pomru svi oni koji su imali krvave ruke , January 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kos, Vinko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vučetinec , Sveti Juraj na Bregu
DATE OF DEATH May 1945
Place of death Bleiburg