Đuro Sudeta ( Stara Plošćica near

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, April 10, 1903 —

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, April 30, 1927) was a Yugoslav writer. After finishing the gymnasium in

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, in 1922 he started working as a teacher at the civil school in

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. Ever since the summer 1925, he fought

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, treating it in Topolšica, Zagreb and Koprivnica. In his brief lifetime he published two books of poetry: ''Osamljenim stazama'' ("By lonesome paths") and ''Kućice u Dolu'' ("Little houses in Dol"). He also wrote several novels and

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s. Sudeta is a poet of dusky sentiments, rain, anxiety, disease and perishing, but he is want of the Sun, vivacity, spring and harmony, confronted with brutal reality of patient's deathbed. Sudeta is a lyric abounding with straightforwardness, creator of a divine religious inspiration, seeking for comfort of the solitude and the redemption in the idyllic quietude of snow-white churches. Among the myriad of short stories he wrote, modern lyrical-fantastic novel ''Mor'' can be singled out. He also wrote poems, magazine articles and political discussions in ''Luč'', ''Hrvatska prosvjeta'' and

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sudeta, Duro 1903 births 1927 deaths People from Bjelovar Yugoslav poets