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Nikica Petrak

ニキツァ・ペトラク

Nikica Petrak

Aliases: Nikola Petrak

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1939-08-31 (Duga Resa)
Died
2016-08-20 (Dubrovnik) age 76
Nationality
Croatian
Languages
Croatian, English
Residence History
Zagreb → Dubrovnik

Career

Occupations
poet, essayist, feuilletonist, translator, academician, journalist, editor
Active Years
1959-2016
Affiliations
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), Society of Croatian Writers, Croatian Writers' Association
Memberships
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), Society of Croatian Literary Artists (DHK), Croatian Society of Writers
Influenced By
T. S. Eliot

Education

University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / Department of English and Art History
Period: 1960年代初頭
Year of Graduation: 1963
Country: Croatia

Awards

Vladimir Nazor Award
1980
Category: 年間賞 (Godišnja nagrada)
Organization: Ministry of Culture of Croatia
Result: 受賞
Tin Ujević Award
1981
Result: 受賞
Goranov vijenac
1996
Category: 詩部門
Result: 受賞
Dragutin Tadijanović Award
2013
Result: 受賞
Vladimir Nazor Award (Lifetime Achievement)
2011
Category: 生涯功労 (Za životno djelo)
Organization: Ministry of Culture of Croatia
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Ispadanje iz povijesti

1996 Poetry

Poetry collection marking his canonical status.

lovetraditionpassage of time
Translations
  • Polish translation by Łucja Danielewska

Bibliography

  • Sve ove stvari (1963)
  • Razgovor s duhovima (1968)
  • Suho slovo (1971)
  • Tiha knjiga (1980)
  • Izjava o namjerama (1989)
  • Izabrane pjesme (1991)
  • Ispadanje iz povijesti (1996)
  • Razmicanje paučine (1999)
  • Neizgovoreni govor: zapisci nasumce (2003)
  • Arka (2004)
  • Od ljubavi (2004)
  • Blaženo doba: sabrane i nove pjesme 1959.–2009. (2009)
  • Na otvorenom kraju (2014)

Translations by Author

  • Dylan Thomas
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Ben Jonson
  • Tom Stoppard

Translations of Works

  • Żywe źródła (1996, Polish)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
eruditeintellectuallater: playful, autoironic, intimate
Recurring Motifs
loverelation to traditioncyclical passage of timeeveryday life

Legacy

One of the most important names in modern Croatian poetry, exemplary in poetic relation to tradition in the spirit of T. S. Eliot.

Academic Societies

  • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Trivia

  • Wife: Prof. Jelka Petrak (medical sciences)
  • Son: Prof. Marko Petrak (Roman law)
  • Father: Dr. Zvonimir Petrak (1914-1943)
  • Grandfather: Nikola Petrak (HSS politician)