Dobriša Cesarić facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Dobriša Cesarić
Born	(1902-01-10)10 January 1902 Požega, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (now Požega, Croatia)
Died	18 December 1980(1980-12-18) (aged 78) Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)
Occupation	poet, writer, translator
Language	Croatian
Period	1916–1970
Literary movement	Modernism

Dobriša Cesarić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈdobriʃa ˈt͡sěsarit͡ɕ]; 10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator. He 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.

Literary work

His first appearance on the literary scene was when he was 14 years old, with the poem I ja ljubim ("I Love Too") published in a youth magazine Pobratim ("Blood Brother"). His poetic oeuvre consists of ten collections of poems and a few translations.

Work as a translator

He translated from German, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian 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, Skopje, 1965.
• Moj prijatelju mene više nema., Zagreb, 1966.
• Slap, izabrane pjesme, Zagreb, 1970.
• Svjetla za daljine, Belgrade, 1975.
• Izabrana lirika, Belgrade, 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.