Mara Švel-Garmišek

Mara SVEL - Gamiršek, even Mara threshold, ( born January 3, 1900 in Srijemska Mitrovica, † December 7, 1975 in Zagreb) was a Croatian writer.

Life

Mara SVEL belonged to the Croatian ethnic group of Schokzen. After attending elementary school in her hometown, she attended high school in Susak and then began to study medicine. After marriage she broke off this and turned in the wake of the literature.

Importance

Mara SVEL began to publish short stories in the 40s in the Matica Hrvatska. Here, their stories deserve special interest, which describe the life of the small, now defunct Croatian ethnic group of Schokzen.

Works

• Luka i Marga; dt Luka and Marga t: Josip Bobek, . in: Morning Journal 55/1940
• Šuma i Šokci, stories, Zagreb 1940 ( from German Aca and Ana, Leipzig 1942)
• Hrast, Zagreb 1942
• Portreti nepoznatih žena, stories, Zagreb 1942
• Price za Sveu i Karen, Zagreb 1967
• Legend, Zagreb 1969
• Izabrana Djela, 1970
• Ovim Sorom Jagodo, Zagreb 1975

In the Croatian émigré journal Hrvatska revija 1976 several of her poems were published.