Josip Kosor (27 January 1879 – 23 January 1961) was a Croatian novelist and playwright. Starting as a novelist depicting

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life in

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, Kosor "graduated into a naturalist dramatist of some power". He was nominated for the

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three times. His plays ''Passion's Furnace'' (1912), ''The Invincible Ship'' (1921) and ''Reconciliation'' were translated for performance in England.

Works

* ''People of the universe: four Croatian plays''. Translated by

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, F. S. Copeland and J. N. Duddington. London: Hendersons, 1917. * ''White flames: poems translated (by the author) from Croatian'', London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1929.

References

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