Vesna Parun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vesna Parun

Poet, translator

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1922

Place of Birth: Zlarin, Å ibenik-Knin County, Croatia

Date of Death: 25-Oct-2010

Profession: writer, poet, translator, children's writer

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Vesna Parun

  • Vesna Parun (pronounced [v?ê?sna pâru?n]; 10 April 1922 – 25 October 2010) was a Croatian poet. After schooling in Zlarin, Å ibenik and Split, she studied Romance languages and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
  • From 1947 she was a free artist, writing poetry, essays, criticism and children's literature.
  • She translated works from Slovene, German, French and Bulgarian.
  • Her first book of poetry Zore i vihori (1947) received negative reviews from social-realist critics.
  • Zlata Kolaric-KiÅ¡ur Starting with the poems collection Crna maslina (1955) love was the primary motif of her written opus.
  • Incessantly working on romantic lyrical poetry, from the 1960s on she published satiric verses directed at politics and the erotic.
  • She wrote more than 20 works for children alone, the most prominent and widely performed being Macak Džingiskan i Miki Trasi.
  • She also wrote several drama pieces, the most significant of which is the ballad Marija i mornar..
  • She is the first woman in Croatia who earned her money solely by being a writer.
  • She published, printed and made illustrations for some of her own books. Parun's other significant works include: Vidrama vjerna (1957) Patka Zlatka (1957) Ti i nikad (1959) Konjanik (1961) Otvorena vrata (1968) Ukleti dažd (1969) Stid me je umrijeti (1974) Igre pred oluju (1979) Å um krila, Å¡um vode (1981) Salto mortale (1981) Pokraj rijeke Kupe kad se vrapci skupe (1989) NedovrÅ¡eni mozaik (1990) Ptica vremena (1996) Smijeh od smrti jaci (1997) Mozak u torbi (2001) More jadransko (2001) Noc za pakost: moj život u 40 vreca (2001) Da sam brod (2002) Suze putuju (2002)

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