Vesna Parun

Vesna Parun was born on 10 April 1922 on the island of Zlarin, into a poor family. She studied philosophy in Zagreb, worked on the construction site of a railway line and contracted typhus there. Kept out of the institutions from her very first book, she lived in precarious circumstances, without a home of her own, and spent six years in Bulgaria after a marriage. She published more than sixty volumes and was the most widely read of the poets of her country. She received the Vladimir Nazor Prize in 1959, then for her complete body of work in 1982, and the Tin Ujević Prize in 2003. She died near Zagreb on 25 October 2010.

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• PoetryZore i vihoriVesna Parun · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature