Ivan Goran Kovačić

Ivan Goran Kovačić was born in 1913 in Lukovdol, in Gorski kotar, to a Croatian father and a Jewish mother from Transylvania. He published his first stories at sixteen, attended the gymnasium in Karlovac, studied Slavic literatures in Zagreb, lived by journalism and translated Rimbaud and the English poets. Though tubercular, he nevertheless left Zagreb at the end of 1942, with Vladimir Nazor, to join the partisans. He was killed on 13 July 1943 near Foča, in eastern Bosnia, by Chetniks, at thirty.

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