Dobriša Cesarić (; 10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a
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n poet and translator born in
Požega. Cesarić is considered one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century.
In 1951 he became a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts
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Literary work
His first appearance on the literary scene was when he was 14 years old, with the poem "" ("I love also" in Croatian) published in a youth magazine called ("blood brother"). His poetic opus consists of ten collections of poems and a few translations.
Work as a translator
He translated from German
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, Russian
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and Hungarian to Croatian.
Works
* ''Lirika'', Zagreb, 1931.
* ''Spasena svjetla'', Zagreb, 1938.
* ''Izabrani stihovi'', Zagreb, 1942.
* ''Pjesme(Voćka poslije kiše)'', Zagreb, 1951.
* ''Knjiga prepjeva'', Zagreb 1951.
* ''Osvijetljeni put'', Zagreb, 1953.
* ''Tri pjesme'', Zagreb, 1955.
* ''Goli časovi'', Novi Sad, 1956.
* ''Proljeće koje nije moje'', Zagreb, 1957.
* ''Izabrane pjesme'', Zagreb, 1960.
* ''Poezija'', Skoplje, 1965.
* ''Moj prijatelju mene više nema.'', Zagreb, 1966.
* ''Slap, izabrane pjesme'', Zagreb, 1970.
* ''Svjetla za daljine'', Beograd, 1975.
* ''Izabrana lirika, Beograd, 1975.
* ''Izabrane pjesme i prepjevi'', Sarajevo, 1975.
* ''Pjesme. Memoarska proza'', Zagreb, 1976 (''Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti'', book 113).
* ''Voćka poslije kiše'', Zagreb, 1978.
;Published posthumously
* ''Spasena svjetla'', Zagreb, 1985.
* ''Srebrna zrnca u pjesniku'', Zagreb, 1985.
* ''Balada iz predgrađa'', Zagreb, 1992.
* ''Povratak'', Zagreb, 1995.
* ''Kadikad'', Zagreb, 1997.
* ''Dobriša Cesarić. Pjesme.'', ABC naklada, Zagreb, 2007.
* ''Izabrana djela'', Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2008.
References
External links
Umro Dobriša Cesarić
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Translated works by Dobriša Cesarić
1902 births
1980 deaths
People from Požega, Croatia
People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Croatian male poets
Croatian translators
Vladimir Nazor Award winners
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
20th-century translators
20th-century Croatian poets
20th-century male writers
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