Vesna Parun Explained

Vesna Parun
Birth Date:	10 April 1922
Birth Place:	Zlarin, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Death Place:	Stubičke Toplice, Croatia
Resting Place:	Grohote, Šolta
Occupation:	Poet
Language:	Croatian
Period:	1947–2001

Vesna Parun (pronounced as /hr/; 10 April 1922 – 25 October 2010)^{[1] [2]} was a Croatian poet.

Biography

After schooling in Zlarin, Šibenik, and Split, she studied Romance languages and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 1947 she was a free artist, writing poetry, essays, criticism, and children's literature. She translated works from Slovene, German, French, and Bulgarian. Her first book of poetry Dawns and Whirlwinds (1947)^[3] 'contrasts the youthful vibrancy, love and nature with death and the destructive forces of war'.^[4] It received negative reviews from the socialist-realist critics, who saw it as "apolitical" and "decadent", possibly for not conforming to tendencies to ideologize post-World War II poetry.^[4]

Starting with the poetry collection Black Olive Tree (1955),^[5] love was the primary motif of her written opus. Incessantly working on romantic lyrical poetry, from the 1960s on, she published satiric verses directed at politics and the erotic. She wrote more than 20 works for children alone, the most prominent and widely performed being Mačak Džingiskan i Miki Trasi (1968). She also wrote several drama pieces, including Marija i mornar (1960). She is the first woman in Croatia who earned her money solely by being a writer. She published, printed, and illustrated some of her own books.^[6]

Selected works

Parun's other significant works include:

• Vidrama vjerna (1957)
• Patka Zlatka (1957)
• Ti i nikad (1959)
• Konjanik (1961)
• Otvorena vrata (1968)
• Ukleti dažd (1969)
• Stid me je umrijeti (1974)
• Igre pred oluju (1979)
• Šum krila, šum vode (1981)
• Salto mortale (1981)
• Pokraj rijeke Kupe kad se vrapci skupe (1989)
• Nedovršeni mozaik (1990)
• Ptica vremena (1996)
• Smijeh od smrti jači (1997)
• Mozak u torbi (2001)
• More jadransko (2001)
• Noć za pakost: moj život u 40 vreća (2001)
• Da sam brod (2002)
• Suze putuju (2002)

Awards

• 1959 – Poet of the Year Award
• 1982 – Vladimir Nazor Award for the lifetime achievement
• 1995 – Poeta Oliveatus at the "" festival.
• 2002 – Visoka žuta žita charter at the Poet Meetings in Drenovci for her overall literary opus and abiding contribution to the Croatian literature
• 2003 – Tin Ujević Award, for the collection of sonnets Suze putuju
• 2010 – European Award – Knjizevna opstina Vrsac (Literary Municipality of Vrsac)

References

• Book: Opća i nacionalna enciklopedija . Antun Vujić . 2009 . Parun, Vesna . hr.

Notes and References

1. News: Preminula je najveća hrvatska pjesnikinja Vesna Parun. Videk. Silva. Derk. Denis. 25 October 2010. Večernji list. hr. 25 October 2010.
2. Web site: Biggest Croatian poetess Vesna Parun died in Stubičke Toplice . 2015-08-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111024/http://www.stubicketoplice.hr/content.asp?CategoryID=899&NewsID=7934&LanguageID=-2 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
3. Web site: The greatest Croatian female poet dies . tportal. 25 October 2010. 20 March 2021.
4. Web site: Parun, Vesna . Croatian Encyclopedia . Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography . hr. 20 March 2021.
5. Web site: Crnković . Gordana P. . Croatian literature . Encyclopedia Britannica. 29 December 2020. 20 March 2021.
6. Web site: Vesna Parun: Bila sam majka, žena, ljubavnica, kuharica i sluškinja. Moje vrijeme. 10 April 2014. hr. 20 March 2021.