Ivo Kozarčanin (

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, October 14, 1911 -

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, February 4, 1941) was a

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ian writer, poet and literary critic. Soon after his birth Kozarčanin's family moved to the Hungarian town of Oreglak, where his faither worked on the railroad. With the dissolution of the

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in 1918 his family returned to

where Kozarčanin attended elementary and merchant schools. In 1923 he came to

where he continued his education. In 1932 he enrolled at the

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. From 1938 he was the editor of the cultural magazine ''Hrvatski dnevnik''. He died after being shot by an armed guard of the Royal Yugoslav Army on February 4, 1941.

Works

* Mati čeka (1934) * Sviram u sviralu (1935) * Lirika (1935) * Tuga ljeta * Mrtve oči * Tuđa žena (1937) * Sam čovjek (1937) * Tihi putovi (1939)

References

Pjesnik osamljenosti i tuge
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kozarcanin, Ivo 1911 births 1941 deaths Croatian male poets Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery Deaths by firearm in Yugoslavia People murdered in Yugoslavia 20th-century Croatian poets 20th-century male writers People from Hrvatska Dubica