Antun Branko Šimić

Antun Branko Šimić was born on 18 November 1898 at Drinovci, near Grude, in Herzegovina, into a Croatian family. After the Franciscan school at Široki Brijeg, then Mostar and Vinkovci, he continued his studies in Zagreb, but had to leave the lycée in 1917 for having founded a magazine, which the school authorities forbade pupils to do. He launched two others, in 1919 and in 1924, in the wake of German Expressionism, and from then on lived by his pen, in poverty. He died in Zagreb on 2 May 1925.

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• PoetryPreobraženjaAntun Branko Šimić · 1920not translated into EnglishLiterature