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Slavko Kolar

Died in 1963

Slavko Kolar was born on 1 December 1891 in Palešnik, near Garešnica, the son of a schoolteacher whose postings kept moving him. He graduated in 1913 from the higher school of agronomy in Križevci and undertook specialised study in France in 1919 and 1920. A public agronomist between the two wars, often transferred, he later ran a large estate. He took part in the partisan resistance, was vice-president of the Matica hrvatska in 1946 and president of the Croatian Writers' Society from 1947 to 1951. He wrote forty-seven short stories, comedies and screenplays, and died in Zagreb on 15 September 1963.

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