Josip Kosor
Josip Kosor (27 January 1879 – 23 January 1961) was a Croatian novelist, poet, and playwright. Starting as a novelist depicting peasant life in Dalmatia, Kosor "graduated into a naturalist dramatist of some power". He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Josip Kosor
- Name
- Josip Kosor
- Born
- 27 January 1879
- Birthplace
- Tribounj, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (now Trbounje, Croatia)
- Died
- 23 January 1961
- Place of death
- Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia (now Dubrovnik, Croatia)
- Occupation
- playwright, novelist, poet
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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Josip Kosor (27 January 1879 – 23 January 1961) was a Croatian novelist, poet, and playwright. Starting as a novelist depicting peasant life in Dalmatia, Kosor "graduated into a naturalist dramatist of some power". He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
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Biography
Biography
His plays Passion's Furnace (1912), The Invincible Ship (1921), and Reconciliation (1923) were translated for performance in England.
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• Name — Josip Kosor • Born — 27 January 1879 • Birthplace — Tribounj, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (now Trbounje, Croatia) • Died — 23 January 1961 • Place of death — Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia (now Dubrovnik, Croatia) • Occupation — playwright, novelist, poet
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Works
• People of the universe: four Croatian plays. Translated by Paul Selver, F. S. Copeland and J. N. Duddington. London: Hendersons, 1917. • White flames: poems translated (by the author) from Croatian, London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1929.
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1879
Josip Kosor born at Tribunj.
1961
Josip Kosor died at Dubrovnik.
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