Viktor Vida

Viktor Vida was born in Kotor on 2 October 1913, in the Croatian community of the Bay of Kotor. He studied South Slavic literature and Italian in Zagreb, and graduated in 1937. He had become known as a poet in a Zagreb circle in which his models were Ljubo Wiesner and Tin Ujević. A librarian, then a secondary-school teacher, from 1943 he worked in Rome and in January 1948 left Italy with his family for Buenos Aires. There he knew poverty before finding, in March 1950, a post as a minor civil servant. He took his own life in September 1960, a week before his forty-seventh birthday.

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• PoetrySvemir osobeViktor Vida · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature