Dobriša Cesarić Explained

Dobriša Cesarić
Birth Date:	10 January 1902^[1]
Birth Place:	Požega, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:	Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation:	poet, writer, translator
Language:	Croatian
Period:	1916 - 1970
Movement:	Modernism

Dobriša Cesarić (in Croatian pronounced as /ˈdobriʃa ˈt͡sěsarit͡ɕ/; 10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator. He is considered one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century.^{[2] [3]} In 1951, he became a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.^[1]

Literary work

His first appearance on the literary scene was when he was 14 years old, with the poem Croatian: I ja ljubim ("I Love Too") published in a youth magazine Croatian: Pobratim ("Blood Brother"). His poetic oeuvre consists of ten collections of poems and a few translations.

Work as a translator

He translated from German, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian and Hungarian to Croatian.

Works

• Lirika, Zagreb, 1931.
• Spasena svjetla, Zagreb, 1938.
• Izabrani stihovi, Zagreb, 1942.
• Pjesme (Voćka poslije kiše), Zagreb, 1951.
• Knjiga prepjeva, Zagreb 1951.
• Osvijetljeni put, Zagreb, 1953.
• Tri pjesme, Zagreb, 1955.
• Goli časovi, Novi Sad, 1956.
• Proljeće koje nije moje, Zagreb, 1957.
• Izabrane pjesme, Zagreb, 1960.
• Poezija, Skopje, 1965.
• Moj prijatelju mene više nema., Zagreb, 1966.
• Slap, izabrane pjesme, Zagreb, 1970.
• Svjetla za daljine, Belgrade, 1975.
• Izabrana lirika, Belgrade, 1975.
• Izabrane pjesme i prepjevi, Sarajevo, 1975.
• Pjesme. Memoarska proza, Zagreb, 1976 (Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti, book 113).
• Voćka poslije kiše, Zagreb, 1978.

Published posthumously

• Spasena svjetla, Zagreb, 1985.
• Srebrna zrnca u pjesniku, Zagreb, 1985.
• Balada iz predgrađa, Zagreb, 1992.
• Povratak, Zagreb, 1995.
• Kadikad, Zagreb, 1997.
• Dobriša Cesarić. Pjesme., ABC naklada, Zagreb, 2007.
• Izabrana djela, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2008.

External links

• Umro Dobriša Cesarić
• Zbunjeno srce . hr. Jozo Puljizević . . 2 . Summer 2002 . live. https://web.archive.org/web/20090622053155/http://www.matica.hr/Kolo/kolo0202.nsf/AllWebDocs/puljizevic1 . 22 June 2009 . dmy-all .
• Dobriša Cesarić lyrics
• Translated works by Dobriša Cesarić

Notes and References

1. Book: Draško Ređep . Živan Milisavac . 1971 . Jugoslovenski književni leksikon . Yugoslav Literary Lexicon . . sh. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) . 62-63 .
2. News: Vjesnik . 2002-01-11 . 13 . hr. article title.
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20041224060335/http://www.pozegaonline.com/i_vijest.php?v=1004&ref=kat&catid=6