| Sida Košutić | |
| Birth Date: | 1902 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Radoboj, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary |
| Death Place: | Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Resting Place: | Mirogoj Cemetery |
| Language: | Croatian |
| Nationality: | Croat |
| Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb |
| Period: | realism, post-romanticism (lyricism) in poetry |
| Genre: | poetry, drama, novel |
| Subject: | childhood, relationship human-nature-God |
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| Partners: | --> |
| Years Active: | 1922-1965 |
Sida Košutić (20 March 1902 – 13 May 1965) was a Croatian novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, literary critic, columnist, lector, and editor-in-chief of Croatian Women's Journal.[1] She was one of the most important female figures of 20th century Croatian literature.[2]
Košutić was the sister of Croatian politician August Košutić. She graduated pedagogy at the University of Zagreb. She was editor-in-chief of Croatian Women's Journal (1939–1944) and lector in the Croatian Publishing Institute, Vjesnik and . As one of the founders of the Croatian Writers' Association, Košutić's work was labeled as anti-governmental; after refusing to sign the capital punishment verdict at the show trial[3] directed against Cardinal Stepinac in 1946, she was fired from the Croatian Publishing Institute.[4]
Košutić was a lyricist, developing her fundamental idea of the aspiration of the human soul to God. Her poetry expressed Christian contemplative and metaphysical preoccupations, which is permeated with seeking a meaning in the mutual expression of love among men and God.[1] Her best lyrical works come in form of the prose poem (the dialogical collection of poems, 1927).[1] [5] Her patriotic poetry works are authentic and deprived of pathos.[1]
She wrote for numerous periodicals,[6] including literary revues, Catholic and Croatian emigrant periodicals.