Dinko Šimunović

Dinko Šimunović ( born September 1, 1873 in Knin; † August 3, 1933 in Zagreb) was a Croatian writer.

Life

The writer grew up in a small village near the Cetina River, northeast of Split, on. This original area, with its patriarchal traditions should influence him greatly in his later work. Šimunović was like his father a teacher. He attended the College of Education in Arbanasi near Zadar. Then he worked as a teacher in the small Dalmatian villages Hrvace (1892-1900) and Dicmo ( 1901-1909 ). Only now Šimunović began writing and published in 1905 a section of a story in the magazine Lovor in Zadar. We became aware of him and put him to trade school to Split. Here he taught from 1909 until his retirement; He wrote at this time most of his literary work. 1929 moved Šimunović for his children to Zagreb, where he died four years later. He is buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb.

Works

Šimunović is one of the greatest storytellers of Croatian literature of the 20th century. In realistic narrative style he lets the old patriarchal world of the South Slavs resurrected as a heroic understood, lost world, which he approaches in the spirit of the old folk tales. Šimunović stands as an artist in his way there alone, he went his own special, independent of the literary currents of the time path. There are only a few translations in German language.

• Mrkodol, stories 1909
• Tuđinac, novel 1911
• Djerdan, 1914; Setting: Jakov Gotovac, people Singspiel, 1954-55
• Mladic dani, 1919
• Mladost, 1921
• Dvije pripovijetke, 1922
• Alkar, 1922 ( German Salko, the Alkar, 1943)
• Porodica Vinčić, novel 1923
• Sabrana Djela I-II, 1930
• Posmrtne novele, 1935
• The arms, dt 1932
• The coward, dt 1940
• On the impregnation of the Cetina, dt 1944

Afterlife

In the town of Sinj is a monument to Ivan Mestrovic by Dinko Šimunović.