Dinko Šimunović (1 September 1873 – 3 August 1933) was a
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Dinko Šimunović was born in
Knin
Knin (, sr, link=no, Книн, it, link=no, Tenin) is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagr ...
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He spent almost two decades as a teacher in villages of the
Zagora, the hinterland of Dalmatia. He retired in 1927 and moved to Zagreb in 1929, where he died in 1933.
Šimunović wrote many stories and two novels, all dealing with people from his native region. His contemporaries described his works as championing a patriarchal, hierarchical, black-and-white world, an impression further reinforced by author's personal distaste towards the modern, urban way of living.
Biography
Dinko Šimunović spent his early childhood in
Koljane Koljane is a small village in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. Koljane is a settlement in the Vrlika municipality, and the majority of the population are Croats. In the 1991 census, the population of Koljane was 285, and the majority were Serbs with ...
near
Vrlika
Vrlika is a small town in inland Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The closest large towns are Sinj, Knin, and Drniš. Vrlika was given the status of town in 1997. Vrlika is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the ...
where his father was a teacher in
Kijevo.
Šimunović completed teacher's school in
Arbanasi between 1888 and 1892.
Works
* "Mrkodol" (1909
)
* "Đerdan" (1914)
* "Mladost" (The Youth, 1921)
* "Alkar" (The Knight, 1908)
* "Tuđinac" (The Foreigner, 1911
)
* "Porodica Vinčić" (Vinčić Family, 1923
)
* "Duga" (The Rainbow, 1907)
''Alkar'' was translated to
Chinese language
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and published in
Shanghai
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in 1936.
References
Bibliography
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External links
Odabrane pripovijetke
1873 births
1933 deaths
People from Knin
Croatian writers
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
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