August Cesarec

August Cesarec was born in Zagreb on 4 December 1893, the son of a social-democrat carpenter; he published a short story in the party's journal as early as 1910. As a schoolboy, he prepared the 1912 attempt on the royal commissioner, and served three years of hard labour in the penitentiary of Srijemska Mitrovica. A communist from the founding of the Yugoslav party, in 1919 he launched a journal with Miroslav Krleža, went to Moscow and fought in Spain on the Republican side. Arrested in March 1941 and interned in the Kerestinec camp, he was recaptured after the failed escape of 13 July, sentenced to death and shot on the 17th at Dotrščina.

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• NovelCareva kraljevinaAugust Cesarec · 1925not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain