Dobriša Cesarić

Dobriša Cesarić was born in Slavonska Požega on 10 January 1902; his father, a forestry engineer, moved with his family to Osijek in 1905, then to Zagreb in 1916. He took his school-leaving examination in 1920, switched from law to philosophy, worked in the archives of the national theatre, then at the School of Public Health as a reader and librarian, and finally for a publisher until 1958. He had published his first poem at the age of fourteen; of one hundred and sixty-five, he published one hundred and twenty-seven in his lifetime. Elected to the Academy in 1951, he received the Zmaj Prize in 1960 and the Goranov vijenac in 1976, and died in Zagreb on 18 December 1980.

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• PoetryLirikaDobriša Cesarić · 1931not translated into EnglishLiterature