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Apr 10, 1922 Zlarin, Šibenik Knin County, Croatia Died on 25 Oct 2010 (aged 88)
Poet, translator
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About Vesna Parun
- Vesna Parun (pronounced [v?ê?sna pâru?n]; 10 April 1922 – 25 October 2010) was a Croatian poet. After schooling in Zlarin, Šibenik and Split, she studied Romance languages and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
- From 1947 she was a free artist, writing poetry, essays, criticism and children's literature.
- She translated works from Slovene, German, French and Bulgarian.
- Her first book of poetry Zore i vihori (1947) received negative reviews from social-realist critics.
- Zlata Kolaric-Kišur Starting with the poems collection Crna maslina (1955) love was the primary motif of her written opus.
- Incessantly working on romantic lyrical poetry, from the 1960s on she published satiric verses directed at politics and the erotic.
- She wrote more than 20 works for children alone, the most prominent and widely performed being Macak Džingiskan i Miki Trasi.
- She also wrote several drama pieces, the most significant of which is the ballad Marija i mornar..
- She is the first woman in Croatia who earned her money solely by being a writer.
- She published, printed and made illustrations for some of her own books. Parun's other significant works include: Vidrama vjerna (1957) Patka Zlatka (1957) Ti i nikad (1959) Konjanik (1961) Otvorena vrata (1968) Ukleti dažd (1969) Stid me je umrijeti (1974) Igre pred oluju (1979) Šum krila, šum vode (1981) Salto mortale (1981) Pokraj rijeke Kupe kad se vrapci skupe (1989) Nedovršeni mozaik (1990) Ptica vremena (1996) Smijeh od smrti jaci (1997) Mozak u torbi (2001) More jadransko (2001) Noc za pakost: moj život u 40 vreca (2001) Da sam brod (2002) Suze putuju (2002)
