Josip Kosor (Croatian pronunciation: [jǒsip kǒsor]; 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".[1] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.[2]
His plays Passion's Furnace (1912), The Invincible Ship (1921), and Reconciliation (1923) were translated for performance in England.[3]
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.
References
- ^ Martin Seymour-Smith (1985). The new guide to modern world literature. P. Bedrick Books. p. 1302. ISBN 978-0-87226-000-9. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ^ "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ Vasa D. Mihailovich (1984). "Yugoslav Drama". In Stanley Hochman (ed.). McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. VNR AG. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-07-079169-5. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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