Slobodan Novak

Slobodan Novak was born in Split in 1924 and, his mother having died young, spent his childhood on the island of Rab, where he began school. He passed his school-leaving examination in Sušak in 1943, joined the anti-fascist struggle, then completed his literature studies in Zagreb in 1953. He was a journalist and editor at Vjesnik, Slobodna Dalmacija and Radio Zagreb, a dramaturg and then director of the drama company of the national theatre in Split, and an editor at Lykos, Zora and Naprijed. A member of the Croatian Academy in 1983, winner of the Vladimir Nazor Prize for his body of work in 1990, he died in Zagreb in 2016 and is buried in Rab.

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• NovelGold, Frankincense and MyrrhMirisi, zlato i tamjanSlobodan Novak · 1968Literature