Josip Kosor Explained

Josip Kosor
Birth Date:	27 January 1879
Birth Place:	Tribounj, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:	Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation:	playwright, novelist, poet

Josip Kosor (in Croatian pronounced as /jǒsip kǒsor/; 27 January 1879  - 23 January 1961) was a Croatian novelist, poet, and playwright. Starting as a novelist depicting peasant life in Dalmatia, Kosor "graduated into a naturalist dramatist of some power".^[1] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.^[2]

His plays Passion's Furnace (1912), The Invincible Ship (1921), and Reconciliation (1923) were translated for performance in England.^[3]

Works

• People of the universe: four Croatian plays. Translated by Paul Selver, F. S. Copeland and J. N. Duddington. London: Hendersons, 1917.
• White flames: poems translated (by the author) from Croatian, London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1929.

Notes and References

1. Book: Martin Seymour-Smith

   . Martin Seymour-Smith. Martin Seymour-Smith. The new guide to modern world literature. registration. 26 November 2012. 1985. P. Bedrick Books. 978-0-87226-000-9. 1302.

2. Web site: Nomination Database. www.nobelprize.org. 2017-04-19.
3. Book: Vasa D. Mihailovich. Stanley Hochman. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. https://books.google.com/books?id=88xIQiXVMCQC&pg=PA198. 26 November 2012. 1984. VNR AG. 978-0-07-079169-5. 198. Yugoslav Drama.