Viktor Vida
Viktor Vida (October 2, 1913 – September 25, 1960) was a Croatian writer.
Early life
[edit]Vida was born in Kotor. After completing his matura in Podgorica in 1932, he moved with his parents to Zagreb, where he graduated from the University of Zagreb in south Slav literature, Italian language and literature, and French and Russian. From 1939, he worked as a librarian in the Institute of Italian Culture (Italian: Istituto di Cultura Italiana) in Zagreb. In 1941 he taught at the I Gymnasium.[1][2]
His first poetry was published in Slobodna misao weekly in Nikšić.[3]
Emigration
[edit]From 1943 he worked in Rome. He emigrated to Buenos Aires with his family in 1948. In Argentina he contributed to the Croatian emigrant publication Hrvatska revija.
His poetry is in the bohemian tradition of Antun Gustav Matoš and Tin Ujević, which he was inspired by after meeting the circle of writers around Ljubo Wiesner and Nikica Polić.[2]
He committed suicide in Buenos Aires on September 25, 1960.[4] His tombstone in the La Chacarita cemetery bears the inscription "Ars longa, vita brevis".[5]
Legacy
[edit]With Croatian independence in 1991, there was renewed availability and interest in his work. The Association of Croatian Writers held an academic conference on him in 1993.[6]
Works
[edit]- Svemir osobe (Buenos Aires, 1951)
- Sužanj vremena (Buenos Aires, 1956)
- Sabrane pjesme (Buenos Aires, 1962)
- Otrovane lokve (Zagreb, 1971)
- Izabrane pjesme (Zagreb, 1994)
Non-fiction:[9]
- Otključana škrinjica (Zagreb, 1997)
References
[edit]- ^ Šego 2015, p. 261.
- ^ a b Bašić, Ante (2004). "Viktor Vida (1913 - 1960)". croatia.ch (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 14 April 2016.
- ^ "Viktor Vida: Duhovna Hrvatska". hkv.hr (in Croatian). 23 November 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- ^ Šego 2015, p. 266.
- ^ Šego 2015, p. 263.
- ^ SVIBOR - Collecting Data on Projects in Croatia
- ^ Šego 2015, pp. 262, 275.
- ^ Brešić 1998, p. 253.
- ^ Šego 2015, p. 275.
Bibliography
[edit]- Brešić, Vinko (1998). "Hrvatska emigrantska književnost (1945.-1990.)" [Croatian Emigrant Literature (1945-1990)] (PDF). Croatica (in Croatian). 27 (45–46): 247–271. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- Šego, Jasna (2015). "Egzistencijalni, duhovni i eshatološki obzori Viktora Vide" [Existential, Spiritual and Eschatological Horizons of Viktor Vida] (PDF). Kroatologija (in Croatian). 6 (1–2): 260–276. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
Further reading
[edit]- Milanja, Cvjetko (2013). "Viktor Vida – kazna jezikom". Hrvatska revija (in Croatian) (4). Matica hrvatska. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- Petrač, Božidar (2011). "Viktor Vida među pjesničkim velikanima" [Viktor Vida Among Poetry’s Greats]. Hrvatski iseljenički zbornik 2012 [Croatian Emigrant Almanac 2012] (PDF) (in Croatian). Croatian Heritage Foundation. pp. 110–124. ISBN 978-953-6525-60-7. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- Schwartz, Stephen. ""Under Empty Skies Falconers Weep": A Personal Survey of Modern Verse in Ex-Yugoslavia and Albania". Retrieved 2 July 2019.
