Dinko Šimunović

Dinko Šimunović was born in Knin on 1 September 1873, the son of a schoolteacher, and spent his childhood in the villages of the Dalmatian hinterland where his father served. He attended the teacher training school near Zadar between 1888 and 1892 and in turn taught for two decades in those villages, whose customs and silences he came to know. The success of his first book earned him a post in Split, where he remained until his retirement, taken in 1927, before settling in Zagreb in 1929. He left some seventy short tales, novels and books of memories, all drawn from his region. He died in Zagreb on 3 August 1933.

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• Short storiesMrkodolDinko Šimunović · 1909not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain